How To Install xfontsel on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfontsel on Fedora 34.
What is xfontsel
The xfontsel application provides a simple way to display the X11 core protocol fonts known to your X server, examine samples of each, and retrieve the X Logical Font Description (“XLFD”) full name for a font.
We can use yum or dnf to install xfontsel on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xfontsel.
Install xfontsel 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 xfontsel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xfontsel
Install xfontsel 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 xfontsel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xfontsel
How To Uninstall xfontsel on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xfontsel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xfontsel
xfontsel Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xfontsel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/010be2ae7c96bd2b501d7075fe7afee935be78
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel
/usr/share/doc/xfontsel
/usr/share/doc/xfontsel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xfontsel/README
/usr/share/licenses/xfontsel
/usr/share/licenses/xfontsel/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xfontsel.1.gz
/usr/bin/xfontsel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/3b610d3258c1978c03ac8d6af39410ad646e3d
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel
/usr/share/licenses/xfontsel
/usr/share/licenses/xfontsel/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xfontsel.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfontsel on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.