How To Install wqy-microhei-fonts on CentOS 8
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.
