How To Install jomolhari-fonts on CentOS 8

jomolhari-fonts is Jomolhari a Bhutanese style font for Tibetan and Dzongkha

Introduction

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

What is jomolhari-fonts

Jomolhari is an TrueType OpenType Bhutanese style font for Dzongkha and Tibetan text. It is based on Bhutanese manuscript examples, supports the Unicode and the Chinese encoding for Tibetan. The font supports the standard combinations used in most texts.

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

Install jomolhari-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 jomolhari-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jomolhari-fonts

Install jomolhari-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 jomolhari-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jomolhari-fonts

How To Uninstall jomolhari-fonts on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove jomolhari-fonts

jomolhari-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-jomolhari.conf
/usr/share/appdata/jomolhari.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/jomolhari-fonts
/usr/share/doc/jomolhari-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/jomolhari-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/jomolhari-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-0-jomolhari.conf
/usr/share/fonts/jomolhari
/usr/share/fonts/jomolhari/Jomolhari-alpha3c-0605331.ttf

References

Summary

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