How To Install cros-host-fonts on CentOS 8

cros-host-fonts is Chromium OS Host Fonts Configuration

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-host-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is cros-host-fonts

Share fonts from Chromium OS. This package provides a config file to search for the shared Chromium OS font directory.

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

Install cros-host-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 cros-host-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cros-host-fonts

Install cros-host-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 cros-host-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cros-host-fonts

How To Uninstall cros-host-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cros-host-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cros-host-fonts

cros-host-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/05-cros-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/cros-host-fonts
/usr/share/doc/cros-host-fonts/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cros-host-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/cros-host-fonts/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-host-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.