How To Install bdf2psf on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install bdf2psf in Fedora 36. bdf2psf is Generate console fonts from BDF source fonts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bdf2psf on Fedora 36.

What is `bdf2psf`

This package provides a command-line converter that can be used in scripts to build console fonts from BDF sources automatically. The converter comes with a collection of font encodings that cover many of the world’s languages. The output font can use a different character encoding from the input. When the source font does not define a glyph for a particular symbol in the encoding table, that glyph position in the console font is not wasted but used for another symbol.

We can use yum or dnf to install bdf2psf on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bdf2psf.

Install bdf2psf 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 bdf2psf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bdf2psf

Install bdf2psf 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 bdf2psf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bdf2psf

How To Uninstall bdf2psf on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the bdf2psf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bdf2psf

bdf2psf Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/bdf2psf
/usr/share/bdf2psf
/usr/share/bdf2psf/arabic.equivalents
/usr/share/bdf2psf/ascii.set
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Arabic.512
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Armenian.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/CyrAsia.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/CyrKoi.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/CyrSlav.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Ethiopian.512
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Georgian.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Greek.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Hebrew.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Lao.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Lat15.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Lat2.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Lat38.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Lat7.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Thai.256
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Uni1.512
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Uni2.512
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Uni3.512
/usr/share/bdf2psf/fontsets/Vietnamese.512
/usr/share/bdf2psf/freebsd.set
/usr/share/bdf2psf/linux.set
/usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents
/usr/share/bdf2psf/useful.set
/usr/share/licenses/bdf2psf
/usr/share/licenses/bdf2psf/GPL-2
/usr/share/man/man1/bdf2psf.1.gz

References

bdf2psf website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bdf2psf on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).