How To Install lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is lohit-tamil-fonts
This package provides a free Tamil truetype/opentype font.
We can use yum or dnf to install lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lohit-tamil-fonts.
Install lohit-tamil-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 lohit-tamil-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lohit-tamil-fonts
Install lohit-tamil-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 lohit-tamil-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lohit-tamil-fonts
How To Uninstall lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lohit-tamil-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lohit-tamil-fonts
lohit-tamil-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-lohit-tamil.conf
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/README
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/test-tamil.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-0-lohit-tamil.conf
/usr/share/fonts/lohit-tamil
/usr/share/fonts/lohit-tamil/Lohit-Tamil.ttf
/usr/share/metainfo/io.pagure.lohit.tamil.font.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.