How To Install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts on CentOS 8

bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts is Mikhail Stephan family of BPG Georgian fonts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts

BPG Fonts are a set of GPL licensed Georgian Unicode fonts. This package contains the Mikhail Stephan font family. This type was first produced in 1709, by the printing-house of King Vahtang VI. In 1712, it was used to print “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” by Shota Rustaveli, then “New Testament” and “The Bible” were printed using updated types prepared in Tbilisi by Hungarian Master Michael Stefan Hungaro-Valakhian.

We can use yum or dnf to install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts.

Install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts

Install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts

How To Uninstall bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts

bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-bpg.conf-mikhail-stephan.conf
/usr/share/appdata/bpg-mikhail-stephan.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/64-bpg.conf-mikhail-stephan.conf
/usr/share/fonts/bpg
/usr/share/fonts/bpg/BPG_Mikhail_Stephan_GPL&GNU.otf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bpg-mikhail-stephan-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.