How To Install gdouros-asea-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdouros-asea-fonts in Fedora 36. gdouros-asea-fonts is Asea is an etude on the dominant typeface of Greek typography

Introduction

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

What is `gdouros-asea-fonts`

Asea is an etude on the dominant typeface of Greek typography. Upright Greek letters were designed in 1805 by Firmin Didot (1764-1836) and cut by Walfard and Vibert. The typeface, together with a complete printing house, was donated in 1821 to the new Greek state by Didot’s son, Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790- 1876). The font covers the Windows Glyph List, IPA Extensions, Greek Extended, Ancient Greek Numbers, Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation, various typographic extras and several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript, Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures). It was created by George Douros.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install gdouros-asea-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install gdouros-asea-fonts

How To Uninstall gdouros-asea-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove gdouros-asea-fonts

gdouros-asea-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-gdouros-asea.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-gdouros-asea.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-asea
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-asea/Asea.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-asea/AseaB.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-asea/AseaBI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/gdouros-asea/AseaI.ttf
/usr/share/metainfo/gdouros-asea.metainfo.xml

References

gdouros-asea-fonts website

Summary

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