How To Install woff2 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install woff2 on CentOS 8.
What is woff2
Web Open Font Format (WOFF) 2.0 is an update to the existing WOFF 1.0 with improved compression that is achieved by using the Brotli algorithm. The primary purpose of the WOFF2 format is to efficiently package fonts linked to Web documents by means of CSS @font-face rules. woff2 1.0.2 5.el8 x86_64 59 k woff2-1.0.2-5.el8.src.rpm appstream Web Open Font Format 2.0 library https MIT Web Open Font Format (WOFF) 2.0 is an update to the existing WOFF 1.0 with improved compression that is achieved by using the Brotli algorithm. The primary purpose of the WOFF2 format is to efficiently package fonts linked to Web documents by means of CSS @font-face rules.
We can use yum or dnf to install woff2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install woff2.
Install woff2 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 woff2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install woff2
Install woff2 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 woff2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install woff2
How To Uninstall woff2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the woff2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove woff2
woff2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/aea6e9d403b4bbf69aa891d0c4fffc361edd7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/913205c1cdc97353c26f08e61891e0cef00996
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/2d86f732667ffebe8b0fc228281b40433849dc
/usr/lib/libwoff2common.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/libwoff2enc.so.1.0.2
/usr/share/licenses/woff2
/usr/share/licenses/woff2/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/c7f3bedf913acf1b96414f5e99cd26ae12a0cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/8efc1c2e0e103ae7a87af097a2708ef7b21000
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/874ba718d5bca1c5b687180ade0fd147e51d4f
/usr/lib64/libwoff2common.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib64/libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib64/libwoff2enc.so.1.0.2
/usr/share/licenses/woff2
/usr/share/licenses/woff2/LICENSE
References
- [woff2 website](https://github.com/google/woff2 https://github.com/google/woff2)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install woff2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.