How To Install fontawesome5-free-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome5-free-fonts in Fedora 36. fontawesome5-free-fonts is Iconic font set

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome5-free-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `fontawesome5-free-fonts`

Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized - size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS. The FontAwesome Free Fonts contain large numbers of icons packaged as font files.

We can use yum or dnf to install fontawesome5-free-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontawesome5-free-fonts.

Install fontawesome5-free-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 fontawesome5-free-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fontawesome5-free-fonts

Install fontawesome5-free-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 fontawesome5-free-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontawesome5-free-fonts

How To Uninstall fontawesome5-free-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the fontawesome5-free-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fontawesome5-free-fonts

fontawesome5-free-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-fontawesome5-free-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome5-free-fonts
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome5-free-fonts/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome5-free-fonts/README-Trademarks.txt
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome5-free-fonts/README.md
/usr/share/doc/fontawesome5-free-fonts/UPGRADING.md
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-fontawesome5-free-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome5-free-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome5-free-fonts/Font Awesome 5 Free-Regular-400.otf
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome5-free-fonts/Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf
/usr/share/licenses/fontawesome5-free-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/fontawesome5-free-fonts/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/com.fontawesome.fontawesome5-free-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

fontawesome5-free-fonts website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome5-free-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).