How To Install samyak-tamil-fonts on CentOS 8

samyak-tamil-fonts is Open Type Fonts for Tamil script

Introduction

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

What is samyak-tamil-fonts

This package contains truetype/opentype font for the display of \ Scripts Tamil.

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

Install samyak-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 samyak-tamil-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install samyak-tamil-fonts

Install samyak-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 samyak-tamil-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install samyak-tamil-fonts

How To Uninstall samyak-tamil-fonts on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove samyak-tamil-fonts

samyak-tamil-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-samyak-tamil.conf
/usr/share/appdata/samyak-tamil.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/67-samyak-tamil.conf
/usr/share/fonts/samyak
/usr/share/fonts/samyak/Samyak-Tamil.ttf

References

Summary

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