How To Install mkfontscale on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkfontscale on Fedora 34.
What is mkfontscale
mkfontscale creates the fonts.scale and fonts.dir index files used by the legacy X11 font system. It now includes the mkfontdir script previously distributed separately for compatibility with older X11 versions.
We can use yum or dnf to install mkfontscale on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkfontscale.
Install mkfontscale 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 mkfontscale using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mkfontscale
Install mkfontscale 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 mkfontscale using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mkfontscale
How To Uninstall mkfontscale on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mkfontscale package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mkfontscale
mkfontscale Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/mkfontdir
/usr/bin/mkfontscale
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/b0d2f7575c7672683c5f3edc5a04cc67e10fd5
/usr/share/licenses/mkfontscale
/usr/share/licenses/mkfontscale/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mkfontdir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkfontscale.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkfontscale on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.