How To Install fcft on Fedora 34

fcft is Simple library for font loading and glyph rasterization Simple library for font loading and glyph rasterization

Introduction

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

What is fcft

fcft is a small font loading and glyph rasterization library built on top of FontConfig, FreeType2 and pixman. It can load and cache fonts from a fontconfig-formatted name string, e.g. Monospace fcft 2.4.3 1.fc34 x86_64 39 k fcft-2.4.3-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Simple library for font loading and glyph rasterization https MIT and Unicode fcft is a small font loading and glyph rasterization library built on top of FontConfig, FreeType2 and pixman. It can load and cache fonts from a fontconfig-formatted name string, e.g. Monospace

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

Install fcft 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 fcft using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fcft

Install fcft 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 fcft using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fcft

How To Uninstall fcft on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fcft

fcft Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/1eab2d2373c3fbd1598eb91c72673248f23c10
/usr/lib64/libfcft.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfcft.so.3.4.3
/usr/share/doc/fcft
/usr/share/doc/fcft/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fcft/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fcft
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE.Unicode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/212ec920f60bd011cfb2311831ad949542b586
/usr/lib/libfcft.so.3
/usr/lib/libfcft.so.3.3.1
/usr/share/doc/fcft
/usr/share/doc/fcft/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fcft/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fcft
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE.Unicode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/6ae1ed10792329e920894fe5028e83c0d833b7
/usr/lib64/libfcft.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfcft.so.3.3.1
/usr/share/doc/fcft
/usr/share/doc/fcft/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fcft/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fcft
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE.Unicode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/190b457b01c32bcf28d3678c5f98c0d05b22e8
/usr/lib/libfcft.so.3
/usr/lib/libfcft.so.3.4.3
/usr/share/doc/fcft
/usr/share/doc/fcft/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fcft/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fcft
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fcft/LICENSE.Unicode

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Summary

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