How To Install ghostscript-tools-fonts on CentOS 8

ghostscript-tools-fonts is Ghostscript’s font utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostscript-tools-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is ghostscript-tools-fonts

This package provides utilities which are useful when you are working with AFM, PFB or PFA files, mostly for conversion purposes.

We can use yum or dnf to install ghostscript-tools-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghostscript-tools-fonts.

Install ghostscript-tools-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 ghostscript-tools-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghostscript-tools-fonts

Install ghostscript-tools-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 ghostscript-tools-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghostscript-tools-fonts

How To Uninstall ghostscript-tools-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ghostscript-tools-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghostscript-tools-fonts

ghostscript-tools-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/pf2afm
/usr/bin/pfbtopfa
/usr/bin/printafm
/usr/share/man/de/man1/printafm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pf2afm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pfbtopfa.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/printafm.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostscript-tools-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.