How To Install urw-base35-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is urw-base35-fonts
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. This meta-package will install all the 35 fonts from the urw-base35-fonts.
We can use yum or dnf to install urw-base35-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install urw-base35-fonts.
Install urw-base35-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-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install urw-base35-fonts
Install urw-base35-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-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install urw-base35-fonts
How To Uninstall urw-base35-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the urw-base35-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove urw-base35-fonts
urw-base35-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/appdata/de.urwpp.URWCoreFontSetLevel2.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install urw-base35-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.