How To Install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is fontawesome-fonts
Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized \u2014 size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS. This package contains OpenType and TrueType font files which are typically used locally.
We can use yum or dnf to install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontawesome-fonts.
Install fontawesome-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 fontawesome-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fontawesome-fonts
Install fontawesome-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 fontawesome-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fontawesome-fonts
How To Uninstall fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fontawesome-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fontawesome-fonts
fontawesome-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-fontawesome.conf
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome-fonts
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome-fonts/README-Trademarks.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-fontawesome.conf
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/FontAwesome.otf
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.