How To Install gnu-free-fonts-common on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-free-fonts-common on CentOS 8.
What is gnu-free-fonts-common
Gnu FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatibility with all modern operating systems. Besides a full set of characters for writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, FreeFont contains large selection of characters from other writing systems some of which are hard to find elsewhere. FreeFont also contains a large set of symbol characters, both technical and decorative. We are especially pleased with the Mathematical Operators range, with which most of the glyphs used in LaTeX can be displayed. This package consists of files used by other gnu-free-fonts packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnu-free-fonts-common on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnu-free-fonts-common.
Install gnu-free-fonts-common 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 gnu-free-fonts-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnu-free-fonts-common
Install gnu-free-fonts-common 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 gnu-free-fonts-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnu-free-fonts-common
How To Uninstall gnu-free-fonts-common on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gnu-free-fonts-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnu-free-fonts-common
gnu-free-fonts-common Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/appdata/gnu-free.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/README
/usr/share/licenses/gnu-free-fonts-common
/usr/share/licenses/gnu-free-fonts-common/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-free-fonts-common on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.