How To Install urw-base35-bookman-fonts on CentOS 8

urw-base35-bookman-fonts is URW Bookman font family [part of Level 2 Core Font Set]

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-bookman-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is urw-base35-bookman-fonts

This package contains URW Bookman font family, which is part of Level 2 Core Font Set. The Level 2 Core Font Set is a PostScript specification of 35 base fonts that can be used with any PostScript file. In Fedora, these fonts are provided freely by (URW)++ company, and are mainly utilized by applications using Ghostscript.

We can use yum or dnf to install urw-base35-bookman-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install urw-base35-bookman-fonts.

Install urw-base35-bookman-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 urw-base35-bookman-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install urw-base35-bookman-fonts

Install urw-base35-bookman-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 urw-base35-bookman-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install urw-base35-bookman-fonts

How To Uninstall urw-base35-bookman-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the urw-base35-bookman-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove urw-base35-bookman-fonts

urw-base35-bookman-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-urw-bookman.conf
/usr/share/appdata/de.urwpp.URWBookman.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/61-urw-bookman.conf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-Demi.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-Demi.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-Demi.t1
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-DemiItalic.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-DemiItalic.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-DemiItalic.t1
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-Light.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-Light.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-Light.t1
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-LightItalic.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-LightItalic.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/URWBookman-LightItalic.t1

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-bookman-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.