How To Install amiri-fonts-common on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-fonts-common in Fedora 36. amiri-fonts-common is Common files for amiri-fonts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-fonts-common on Fedora 36.

What is amiri-fonts-common

Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text. Amiri is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in early 20th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, after which the font is named. This package consists of files used by other amiri-fonts packages.

We can use yum or dnf to install amiri-fonts-common on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amiri-fonts-common.

Install amiri-fonts-common on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install amiri-fonts-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install amiri-fonts-common

Install amiri-fonts-common on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install amiri-fonts-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install amiri-fonts-common

How To Uninstall amiri-fonts-common on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the amiri-fonts-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove amiri-fonts-common

amiri-fonts-common Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/Documentation-Arabic.pdf
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/NEWS-Arabic
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/README
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/README-Arabic
/usr/share/licenses/amiri-fonts-common
/usr/share/licenses/amiri-fonts-common/OFL.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-fonts-common on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).