How To Install libfonts on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfonts on Fedora 34.
What is libfonts
LibFonts is a library developed to support advanced layouting in JFreeReport. This library allows to read TrueType-Font files to extract layouting specific informations.
We can use yum or dnf to install libfonts on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libfonts.
Install libfonts 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 libfonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libfonts
Install libfonts 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 libfonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libfonts
How To Uninstall libfonts on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libfonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libfonts
libfonts Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/share/doc/libfonts
/usr/share/doc/libfonts/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/libfonts/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/libfonts/licence-LGPL.txt
/usr/share/java/libfonts.jar
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfonts on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.