How To Install wqy-microhei-fonts on CentOS 8

wqy-microhei-fonts is Compact Chinese fonts derived from Droid

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-microhei-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is wqy-microhei-fonts

A new Sans Serif CJK font derived from Google’s “Droid Sans Fallback” and covers the entire GBK code points (20932 Han glyphs).

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

Install wqy-microhei-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 wqy-microhei-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wqy-microhei-fonts

Install wqy-microhei-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 wqy-microhei-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wqy-microhei-fonts

How To Uninstall wqy-microhei-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the wqy-microhei-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wqy-microhei-fonts

wqy-microhei-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-wqy-microhei.conf
/usr/share/doc/wqy-microhei-fonts
/usr/share/doc/wqy-microhei-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/66-wqy-microhei.conf
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-microhei
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-microhei/wqy-microhei.ttc
/usr/share/licenses/wqy-microhei-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/wqy-microhei-fonts/LICENSE_Apache2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wqy-microhei-fonts/LICENSE_GPLv3.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-microhei-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.