How To Install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 8
gnome-font-viewer is Utility for previewing fonts for GNOME
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 8.
What is gnome-font-viewer
Use gnome-font-viewer, the Font Viewer, to preview fonts and display information about a specified font. You can use the Font Viewer to display the name, style, type, size, version and copyright of the font.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-font-viewer.
Install gnome-font-viewer 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 gnome-font-viewer using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-font-viewer
Install gnome-font-viewer 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 gnome-font-viewer using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-font-viewer
How To Uninstall gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gnome-font-viewer package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-font-viewer
gnome-font-viewer Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer
/usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/12b8ce88a37f698782cdd1e79f173190b5df42
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/b2c5d615bbc9fdcbf97af4a5458137ee2f685c
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.font-viewer.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.font-viewer.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-font-viewer
/usr/share/doc/gnome-font-viewer/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-font-viewer
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-font-viewer/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.font-viewer.appdata.xml
/usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-font-viewer.thumbnailer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.