How To Install dejavu-serif-fonts on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-serif-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is dejavu-serif-fonts

The DejaVu font set is based on the “Bitstream Vera” fonts, release 1.10. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters, while maintaining the original style, using an open collaborative development process. This package consists of the DejaVu serif variable-width font faces, in their unabridged version. It includes the Mathematics extension, that was contributed to the project by B. Jackowski, P. Strzelczyk and P. Pianowski, on behalf of TeX user groups.

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

Install dejavu-serif-fonts 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 dejavu-serif-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dejavu-serif-fonts

Install dejavu-serif-fonts 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 dejavu-serif-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dejavu-serif-fonts

How To Uninstall dejavu-serif-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the dejavu-serif-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dejavu-serif-fonts

dejavu-serif-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-serif-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-serif-fonts
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-serif-fonts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-serif-fonts/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-serif-fonts/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-serif-fonts/README.md
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/57-dejavu-serif-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuMathTeXGyre.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerif.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-serif-fonts/DejaVuSerifCondensed.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/dejavu-serif-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/dejavu-serif-fonts/LICENSE
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.dejavu-serif-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

• dejavu-serif-fonts website

Summary

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