How To Install lklug-fonts on CentOS 8

lklug-fonts is Fonts for Sinhala language

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.