How To Install ipa-gothic-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-gothic-fonts in Fedora 36. ipa-gothic-fonts is Japanese Gothic-typeface OpenType font by IPA

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-gothic-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `ipa-gothic-fonts`

IPA Font is a Japanese OpenType fonts that is JIS X 0213 compliant, provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. This package contains Gothic (sans-serif) style font.

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

Install ipa-gothic-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 ipa-gothic-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipa-gothic-fonts

Install ipa-gothic-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 ipa-gothic-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipa-gothic-fonts

How To Uninstall ipa-gothic-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ipa-gothic-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipa-gothic-fonts

ipa-gothic-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-ipa-gothic.conf
/usr/share/doc/ipa-gothic-fonts
/usr/share/doc/ipa-gothic-fonts/Readme_ipag00303.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-ipa-gothic.conf
/usr/share/fonts/ipa-gothic
/usr/share/fonts/ipa-gothic/ipag.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-gothic-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-gothic-fonts/IPA_Font_License_Agreement_v1.0.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/ipa-gothic.metainfo.xml

References

ipa-gothic-fonts website

Summary

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