How To Install freetype on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype on CentOS 8.
What is freetype
The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library. freetype 2.9.1 4.el8_3.1 x86_64 394 k freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_3.1.src.rpm baseos A free and portable font rendering engine http (FTL or GPLv2+) and BSD and MIT and Public Domain and zlib with acknowledgement The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.
We can use yum or dnf to install freetype on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetype.
Install freetype 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 freetype using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freetype
Install freetype 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 freetype using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freetype
How To Uninstall freetype on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freetype package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freetype
freetype Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/fc06c4e6b5af7e32613447e4a7a34e0ceb7721
/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.16.1
/usr/share/doc/freetype
/usr/share/doc/freetype/README
/usr/share/licenses/freetype
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/GPLv2.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/4da62938adc2ee16ade038428f95639a5bf2a5
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.16.1
/usr/share/doc/freetype
/usr/share/doc/freetype/README
/usr/share/licenses/freetype
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/GPLv2.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype/LICENSE.TXT
References
- [freetype website](http://www.freetype.org http://www.freetype.org)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
