How To Install dejavu-fonts-common on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-fonts-common on CentOS 8.
What is dejavu-fonts-common
The DejaVu font set is based on the \u201cBitstream Vera\u201d fonts, release 1.10. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters, while maintaining the original style, using an open collaborative development process. This package consists of files used by other DejaVu packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install dejavu-fonts-common on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dejavu-fonts-common.
Install dejavu-fonts-common 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 dejavu-fonts-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dejavu-fonts-common
Install dejavu-fonts-common 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 dejavu-fonts-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dejavu-fonts-common
How To Uninstall dejavu-fonts-common on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dejavu-fonts-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dejavu-fonts-common
dejavu-fonts-common Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/appdata/dejavu.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/README
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/status.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common/unicover.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-fonts-common on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.