How To Install terminus-fonts-grub2 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install terminus-fonts-grub2 on CentOS 8.
What is terminus-fonts-grub2
The Terminus Font is designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with computers. It covers about 120 language sets and supports ISO8859-1/2/5/7/9/13/15/16, Paratype-PT154/PT254, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Esperanto, and many IBM, Windows and Macintosh code pages, as well as the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm pseudo graphic characters. The sizes present are 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 11x22, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32. The styles are normal and bold (except for 6x12), plus EGA/VGA-bold for 8x14 and 8x16. The font is available for the Linux console and for X11. This package contains the fonts to use with the grub2 boot loader.
We can use yum or dnf to install terminus-fonts-grub2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install terminus-fonts-grub2.
Install terminus-fonts-grub2 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 terminus-fonts-grub2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install terminus-fonts-grub2
Install terminus-fonts-grub2 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 terminus-fonts-grub2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install terminus-fonts-grub2
How To Uninstall terminus-fonts-grub2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the terminus-fonts-grub2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove terminus-fonts-grub2
terminus-fonts-grub2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/terminus-fonts-grub2
/usr/share/doc/terminus-fonts-grub2/README
/usr/share/doc/terminus-fonts-grub2/README-BG
/usr/share/grub/ter-u12b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u12n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u14b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u14n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u16b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u16n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u18b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u18n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u20b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u20n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u22b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u22n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u24b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u24n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u28b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u28n.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u32b.pf2
/usr/share/grub/ter-u32n.pf2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install terminus-fonts-grub2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.