How To Install gnome-font-viewer on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer in Fedora 36. gnome-font-viewer is Utility for previewing fonts for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer on Fedora 36.

What is `gnome-font-viewer`

Use gnome-font-viewer, the Font Viewer, to preview fonts and display information about a specified font. You can use the Font Viewer to display the name, style, type, size, version and copyright of the font.

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

Install gnome-font-viewer 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 gnome-font-viewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-font-viewer

Install gnome-font-viewer 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 gnome-font-viewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-font-viewer

How To Uninstall gnome-font-viewer on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gnome-font-viewer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-font-viewer

gnome-font-viewer Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer
/usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/0c78af9f6c44ee5ead3afb270c8d422213ecb0
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/a92a5606db1501cc69787125d2fad5cf0d5eac
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.font-viewer.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.font-viewer.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-font-viewer
/usr/share/doc/gnome-font-viewer/NEWS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.gnome.font-viewer.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.gnome.font-viewer-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-font-viewer
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-font-viewer/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ckb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-font-viewer.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.font-viewer.appdata.xml
/usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-font-viewer.thumbnailer

References

gnome-font-viewer website

Summary

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