How To Install tibetan-machine-uni-fonts on CentOS 8

tibetan-machine-uni-fonts is Tibetan Machine Uni font for Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tibetan-machine-uni-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is tibetan-machine-uni-fonts

Tibetan Machine Uni is an TrueType OpenType, Unicode font released by THDL project. The font supports Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi in dbu-can script with full support for the Sanskrit combinations found in chos skad text.

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

Install tibetan-machine-uni-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 tibetan-machine-uni-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tibetan-machine-uni-fonts

Install tibetan-machine-uni-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 tibetan-machine-uni-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tibetan-machine-uni-fonts

How To Uninstall tibetan-machine-uni-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tibetan-machine-uni-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tibetan-machine-uni-fonts

tibetan-machine-uni-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/appdata/tibetan-machine-uni.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/tibetan-machine-uni-fonts
/usr/share/doc/tibetan-machine-uni-fonts/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/doc/tibetan-machine-uni-fonts/gpl.txt
/usr/share/fonts/tibetan-machine-uni
/usr/share/fonts/tibetan-machine-uni/TibMachUni-1.901b.ttf

References

Summary

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