How To Install gnu-free-fonts-common on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-free-fonts-common in Fedora 36. gnu-free-fonts-common is Common files for freefont (documentation…)

Introduction

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

What is `gnu-free-fonts-common`

Gnu FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatibility with all modern operating systems. Besides a full set of characters for writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, FreeFont contains large selection of characters from other writing systems some of which are hard to find elsewhere. FreeFont also contains a large set of symbol characters, both technical and decorative. We are especially pleased with the Mathematical Operators range, with which most of the glyphs used in LaTeX can be displayed. This package consists of files used by other gnu-free-fonts packages.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install gnu-free-fonts-common

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

sudo yum -y install gnu-free-fonts-common

How To Uninstall gnu-free-fonts-common on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove gnu-free-fonts-common

gnu-free-fonts-common Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/appdata/gnu-free.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common/README
/usr/share/licenses/gnu-free-fonts-common
/usr/share/licenses/gnu-free-fonts-common/COPYING

References

gnu-free-fonts-common website

Summary

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