How To Install fontpackages-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontpackages-devel
on CentOS 8.
What is fontpackages-devel
This package contains spec templates, rpm macros and other materials used to create font packages.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fontpackages-devel
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontpackages-devel.
Install fontpackages-devel 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 fontpackages-devel
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fontpackages-devel
Install fontpackages-devel 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 fontpackages-devel
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fontpackages-devel
How To Uninstall fontpackages-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fontpackages-devel
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fontpackages-devel
fontpackages-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-multi.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-partial-multi.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-partial-simple.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-simple.spec
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.fonts
/usr/share/doc/fontpackages
/usr/share/doc/fontpackages/readme.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/basic-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/basic-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/fontconfig-generics.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/fontconfig-priorities.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/index.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/l10n-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/l10n-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/merging-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/merging-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/remapping-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/remapping-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/rescaling-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/rescaling-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/substitution-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/substitution-font-template.txt
/usr/share/licenses/fontpackages
/usr/share/licenses/fontpackages/license.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontpackages-devel
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.