How To Install libfonts on Fedora 34

libfonts is TrueType Font Layouting

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.