How To Install gfs-baskerville-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-baskerville-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is gfs-baskerville-fonts
John Baskerville (1706-1775) got involved in typography late in his career but his contribution was significant. He was a successful entrepreneur and possessed an inquiring mind which he applied to produce many aesthetic and technical innovations in printing. He invented a new ink formula, a new type of smooth paper and made various improvements in the printing press. He was also involved in type design which resulted in a Latin typeface which was used for the edition of Virgil, in 1757. The quality of the type was admired throughout of Europe and America and was revived with great success in the early 20th century. Baskerville was also involved in the design of a Greek typeface which he used in an edition of the New Testament for Oxford University, in 1763. He adopted the practice of avoiding the excessive number of ligatures which Alexander Wilson had started a few years earlier but his Greek types were rather narrow in proportion and did not win the sympathy of the philologists and other scholars of his time. They did influence, however, the Greek types of Giambattista Bodoni. and through him Didot’s Greek in Paris. The typeface has been digitally revived as GFS Baskerville Classic by Sophia Kalaitzidou and George D. Matthiopoulos and is now available as part of GFS’ type library.
We can use yum or dnf to install gfs-baskerville-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfs-baskerville-fonts.
Install gfs-baskerville-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 gfs-baskerville-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gfs-baskerville-fonts
Install gfs-baskerville-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 gfs-baskerville-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gfs-baskerville-fonts
How To Uninstall gfs-baskerville-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the gfs-baskerville-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gfs-baskerville-fonts
gfs-baskerville-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-gfs-baskerville-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/gfs-baskerville-fonts
/usr/share/doc/gfs-baskerville-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/61-gfs-baskerville-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-baskerville-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-baskerville-fonts/GFSBaskerville.otf
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-baskerville-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-baskerville-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.gfs-baskerville-fonts.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-baskerville-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
