How To Install smc-rachana-fonts on CentOS 8

smc-rachana-fonts is Open Type Fonts for Malayalam script

Introduction

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

What is smc-rachana-fonts

The Rachana font package contains fonts for the display of traditional Malayalam Scripts.

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

Install smc-rachana-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 smc-rachana-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install smc-rachana-fonts

Install smc-rachana-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 smc-rachana-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install smc-rachana-fonts

How To Uninstall smc-rachana-fonts on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove smc-rachana-fonts

smc-rachana-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-smc-rachana.conf
/usr/share/appdata/smc-rachana.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/smc-rachana-fonts
/usr/share/doc/smc-rachana-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/smc-rachana-fonts/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/smc-rachana-fonts/README
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-0-smc-rachana.conf
/usr/share/fonts/smc
/usr/share/fonts/smc/Rachana.ttf

References

Summary

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