How To Install fontaine on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontaine in Fedora 36. fontaine is Font file meta information utility

Introduction

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

What is fontaine

Fontaine is a command-line utility that displays key meta information about font files, including but not limited to font name, style, weight, glyph count, character count, copyright, license information and orthographic coverage.

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

Install fontaine 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 fontaine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fontaine

Install fontaine 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 fontaine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontaine

How To Uninstall fontaine on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fontaine

fontaine Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fontaine
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/8dc5e35e62e6a88fa2426f602efcfd04eaba23
/usr/share/doc/fontaine
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/DEBIAN_UBUNTU_INSTALL.txt
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/GPL-2.0-LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/NOTES_ON_CODING
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/html
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/html/css
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/html/css/main.css
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/html/images
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/html/images/winter_blue_low.jpg
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/documentation/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/fontaine/html
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/fontaine.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/fontaine.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fontaine.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/fontaine.mo

References

Summary

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