How To Install fontdump on Fedora 34

fontdump is Dump the CSS and different formats of fonts for Google Fonts

Introduction

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

What is fontdump

A command line tool to dump the CSS and different formats of fonts for Google Fonts, so you can serve them on your local servers.

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

Install fontdump 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 fontdump using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fontdump

Install fontdump 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 fontdump using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontdump

How To Uninstall fontdump on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fontdump

fontdump Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fontdump

References

Summary

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