How To Install ipa-pgothic-fonts on Fedora 36

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

Introduction

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

What is `ipa-pgothic-fonts`

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

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

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

sudo dnf -y install ipa-pgothic-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install ipa-pgothic-fonts

How To Uninstall ipa-pgothic-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ipa-pgothic-fonts

ipa-pgothic-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/68-ipa-pgothic.conf
/usr/share/doc/ipa-pgothic-fonts
/usr/share/doc/ipa-pgothic-fonts/Readme_ipagp00303.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/68-ipa-pgothic.conf
/usr/share/fonts/ipa-pgothic
/usr/share/fonts/ipa-pgothic/ipagp.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-pgothic-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-pgothic-fonts/IPA_Font_License_Agreement_v1.0.txt

References

ipa-pgothic-fonts website

Summary

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