How To Install vlgothic-p-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlgothic-p-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is vlgothic-p-fonts
VLGothic provides Japanese TrueType fonts from the Vine Linux project. Most of the glyphs are taken from the M+ and Sazanami Gothic fonts, but some have also been improved by the project. This package provides the VLGothic font with proportional glyphs for some non-Japanese characters.
We can use yum or dnf to install vlgothic-p-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vlgothic-p-fonts.
Install vlgothic-p-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 vlgothic-p-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vlgothic-p-fonts
Install vlgothic-p-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 vlgothic-p-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vlgothic-p-fonts
How To Uninstall vlgothic-p-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vlgothic-p-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vlgothic-p-fonts
vlgothic-p-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-2-vlgothic-pgothic.conf
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-p-fonts
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-p-fonts/README
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-p-fonts/README.sazanami
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-p-fonts/README_E.mplus
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-p-fonts/README_J.mplus
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-2-vlgothic-pgothic.conf
/usr/share/fonts/vlgothic
/usr/share/fonts/vlgothic/VL-PGothic-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-p-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-p-fonts/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-p-fonts/LICENSE.en
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-p-fonts/LICENSE_E.mplus
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-p-fonts/LICENSE_J.mplus
/usr/share/metainfo/vlgothic-proportional.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlgothic-p-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.