How To Install sil-nuosu-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-nuosu-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is sil-nuosu-fonts
The Nuosu SIL Font is a single Unicode font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China. Until this version, the font was called SIL Yi.
We can use yum or dnf to install sil-nuosu-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sil-nuosu-fonts.
Install sil-nuosu-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 sil-nuosu-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sil-nuosu-fonts
Install sil-nuosu-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 sil-nuosu-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sil-nuosu-fonts
How To Uninstall sil-nuosu-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sil-nuosu-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sil-nuosu-fonts
sil-nuosu-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-sil-nuosu.conf
/usr/share/appdata/sil-nuosu.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/sil-nuosu-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-nuosu-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-nuosu-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/66-sil-nuosu.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-nuosu
/usr/share/fonts/sil-nuosu/NuosuSIL.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-nuosu-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
