How To Install wqy-unibit-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-unibit-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is wqy-unibit-fonts
The Wen Quan Yi Unibit is designed as a dual-width (16x16,16x8) bitmap font to provide the most complete international symbol coverage, serving as the system-wide fall-back font. This font has covered over 46000 Unicode code points in BMP. It is intended to supersede the outdated GNU Unifont. This font was created by merging the latest update of GNU Unifont [GPL] (by Roman Czyborra and David Starner et al., the font was last updated in 2004), WenQuanYi Bitmap Song [GPL] 0.8.1 (by Qianqian Fang and WenQuanYi contributors) and Fixed-16x8 [public domain] bitmap fonts from X11 core fonts. The entire CJK Unified Ideographics (U4E00-U9FA5) and CJK Unified Ideographics Extension A(U3400-U4DB5) blocks were replaced by high-quality glyphs from China National Standard GB19966-2005 (public domain). Near a thousand of non-CJK characters were improved by WenQuanYi contributors via their collaborative font editing website at http
We can use yum or dnf to install wqy-unibit-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wqy-unibit-fonts.
Install wqy-unibit-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-unibit-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wqy-unibit-fonts
Install wqy-unibit-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-unibit-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wqy-unibit-fonts
How To Uninstall wqy-unibit-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wqy-unibit-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wqy-unibit-fonts
wqy-unibit-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wqy-unibit-fonts/README
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-unibit
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-unibit/wqy-unibit.pcf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-unibit-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.