How To Install gdouros-aegean-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdouros-aegean-fonts in Fedora 36. gdouros-aegean-fonts is A font for ancient scripts in the greater Aegean vicinity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdouros-aegean-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `gdouros-aegean-fonts`

Aegean covers the following scripts and symbols Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation, Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Linear A, the Arkalochori Axe, Ancient Greek and Old Italic variant alphabets. Those of the above that are not supported by the Unicode Standard 8.0, they are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. It was created by George Douros.

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

Install gdouros-aegean-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 gdouros-aegean-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gdouros-aegean-fonts

Install gdouros-aegean-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 gdouros-aegean-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gdouros-aegean-fonts

How To Uninstall gdouros-aegean-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gdouros-aegean-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gdouros-aegean-fonts

gdouros-aegean-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-gdouros-aegean.conf
/usr/share/doc/gdouros-aegean-fonts
/usr/share/doc/gdouros-aegean-fonts/Aegean.odt
/usr/share/doc/gdouros-aegean-fonts/Aegean.pdf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-gdouros-aegean.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-aegean
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-aegean/Aegean.ttf
/usr/share/metainfo/gdouros-aegean.metainfo.xml

References

gdouros-aegean-fonts website

Summary

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