How To Install culmus-shofar-fonts on CentOS 8

culmus-shofar-fonts is Fonts for Hebrew from Culmus project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install culmus-shofar-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is culmus-shofar-fonts

The culmus-fonts package contains fonts for the display of Hebrew from the Culmus project.

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

Install culmus-shofar-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 culmus-shofar-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install culmus-shofar-fonts

Install culmus-shofar-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 culmus-shofar-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install culmus-shofar-fonts

How To Uninstall culmus-shofar-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the culmus-shofar-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove culmus-shofar-fonts

culmus-shofar-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-culmus-shofar.conf
/usr/share/appdata/culmus-shofar.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/66-culmus-shofar.conf
/usr/share/fonts/culmus
/usr/share/fonts/culmus/ShofarDemi-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/culmus/ShofarDemi-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/culmus/ShofarRegular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/culmus/ShofarRegularOblique.ttf

References

Summary

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