How To Install lklug-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lklug-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is lklug-fonts
The lklug-fonts package contains fonts for the display of Sinhala. The original font for TeX/LaTeX is developed by Yannis Haralambous and are in GPL. OTF tables are added by Anuradha Ratnaweera and Harshani Devadithya.
We can use yum or dnf to install lklug-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lklug-fonts.
Install lklug-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 lklug-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lklug-fonts
Install lklug-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 lklug-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lklug-fonts
How To Uninstall lklug-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lklug-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lklug-fonts
lklug-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-lklug.conf
/usr/share/appdata/lklug.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts/README.fonts
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-lklug.conf
/usr/share/fonts/lklug
/usr/share/fonts/lklug/lklug.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lklug-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.