How To Install root-fonts on CentOS 8

root-fonts is ROOT font collection

Introduction

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

What is root-fonts

This package contains fonts used by ROOT that are not available in Fedora. In particular it contains STIX version 0.9 that is used by TMathText.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install root-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install root-fonts

How To Uninstall root-fonts on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove root-fonts

root-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/root/fonts
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneralBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneralBolIta.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneralItalic.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz1Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz1SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz2Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz2SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz3Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz3SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz4Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz4SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz5Sym.otf

References

Summary

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