How To Install zvbi-fonts on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zvbi-fonts on CentOS 8.
What is zvbi-fonts
Fonts from zvbi converted for use with X11
We can use yum or dnf to install zvbi-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zvbi-fonts.
Install zvbi-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 zvbi-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zvbi-fonts
Install zvbi-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 zvbi-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zvbi-fonts
How To Uninstall zvbi-fonts on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the zvbi-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zvbi-fonts
zvbi-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/X11/fontpath.d/zvbi
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/caption.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/captioni.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/fonts.alias
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/fonts.cache-1
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/fonts.dir
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/teletext1.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/teletext1i.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/teletext2.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/teletext2i.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/teletext4.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/zvbi/teletext4i.pcf.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zvbi-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
