How To Install lohit-tamil-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lohit-tamil-fonts in Fedora 36. lohit-tamil-fonts is Free truetype font for Tamil language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lohit-tamil-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `lohit-tamil-fonts`

This package provides a free Tamil truetype/opentype font.

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

Install lohit-tamil-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 lohit-tamil-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lohit-tamil-fonts

Install lohit-tamil-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 lohit-tamil-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lohit-tamil-fonts

How To Uninstall lohit-tamil-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the lohit-tamil-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lohit-tamil-fonts

lohit-tamil-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-lohit-tamil.conf
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/README
/usr/share/doc/lohit-tamil-fonts/test-tamil.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-0-lohit-tamil.conf
/usr/share/fonts/lohit-tamil
/usr/share/fonts/lohit-tamil/Lohit-Tamil.ttf
/usr/share/metainfo/io.pagure.lohit.tamil.font.metainfo.xml

References

lohit-tamil-fonts website

Summary

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