How To Install alfont on Fedora 34

alfont is Font rendering library for the Allegro game library Font rendering library for the Allegro game library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alfont on Fedora 34.

What is `alfont`

alfont also known as AllegroFont or AlFont is a wrapper around the freetype2 library for use with the Allegro game library. Thus allowing the display of text using freetype fonts on Allegro bitmaps. alfont 2.0.9 20.fc34 x86_64 35 k alfont-2.0.9-20.fc34.src.rpm fedora Font rendering library for the Allegro game library http FTL alfont also known as AllegroFont or AlFont is a wrapper around the freetype2 library for use with the Allegro game library. Thus allowing the display of text using freetype fonts on Allegro bitmaps.

We can use yum or dnf to install alfont on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alfont.

Install alfont on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install alfont using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alfont

Install alfont on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install alfont using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alfont

How To Uninstall alfont on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the alfont package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alfont

alfont Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/023f6a145a3bf44172d8bd461143d737087a91
/usr/lib/libalfont.so.2
/usr/lib/libalfont.so.2.0.9
/usr/share/doc/alfont
/usr/share/doc/alfont/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/alfont/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/doc/alfont/README.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/d0a309a695144fd3dec41e7e92a987d60a324a
/usr/lib64/libalfont.so.2
/usr/lib64/libalfont.so.2.0.9
/usr/share/doc/alfont
/usr/share/doc/alfont/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/alfont/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/doc/alfont/README.txt

References

[alfont website](http://chernsha.sitesled.com/ http://chernsha.sitesled.com/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alfont on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.