How To Install liberation-sans-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-sans-fonts in Fedora 36. liberation-sans-fonts is Sans-serif fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Arial

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-sans-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is liberation-sans-fonts

The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the 3 most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems This package provides Sans-serif TrueType fonts that replace commonly used Microsoft Arial.

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

Install liberation-sans-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 liberation-sans-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liberation-sans-fonts

Install liberation-sans-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 liberation-sans-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liberation-sans-fonts

How To Uninstall liberation-sans-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the liberation-sans-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove liberation-sans-fonts

liberation-sans-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/X11/fontpath.d/liberation-sans-fonts
/etc/fonts/conf.d/59-liberation-sans.conf
/usr/share/appdata/liberation-sans.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/59-liberation-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans/.uuid
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans/LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans/LiberationSans-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans/fonts.dir
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-sans/fonts.scale

References

Summary

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