How To Install fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts-web
on CentOS 8.
What is fontawesome-fonts-web
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 CSS, SCSS and LESS style files as well as Web Open Font Format versions 1 and 2, Embedded OpenType and SVG font files which are typically used on the web.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fontawesome-fonts-web
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontawesome-fonts-web.
Install fontawesome-fonts-web 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-web
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fontawesome-fonts-web
Install fontawesome-fonts-web 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-web
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fontawesome-fonts-web
How To Uninstall fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fontawesome-fonts-web
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fontawesome-fonts-web
fontawesome-fonts-web Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/font-awesome-web
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/css
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/css/font-awesome.css
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/css/font-awesome.min.css
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/animated.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/bordered-pulled.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/core.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/fixed-width.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/font-awesome.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/icons.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/larger.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/list.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/mixins.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/path.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/rotated-flipped.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/screen-reader.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/stacked.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/less/variables.less
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_animated.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_bordered-pulled.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_core.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_fixed-width.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_icons.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_larger.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_list.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_mixins.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_path.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_rotated-flipped.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_screen-reader.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_stacked.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/_variables.scss
/usr/share/font-awesome-web/scss/font-awesome.scss
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.eot
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.svg
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts-web
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.