How To Install sil-busra-dot-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-busra-dot-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-busra-dot-fonts is Khmer Busra dot, a special Khmer Busra variant

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-busra-dot-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is sil-busra-dot-fonts

The Mondulkiri font families provide Unicode support for the Khmer script. “Mondulkiri” and “Ratanakiri” are the names of two provinces in north-eastern Cambodia, Busra and Oureang are names of places in Mondulkiri province. This font does something that a Unicode font should not do and that is it does not show the “correct” symbol for one particular Unicode code-point. It shows a dotted circle in the place where a ក should be shown. It may be used for didactic purposes.

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

Install sil-busra-dot-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 sil-busra-dot-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sil-busra-dot-fonts

Install sil-busra-dot-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 sil-busra-dot-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sil-busra-dot-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-busra-dot-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sil-busra-dot-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sil-busra-dot-fonts

sil-busra-dot-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-sil-busra-dot-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-busra-dot-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-busra-dot-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-busra-dot-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/66-sil-busra-dot-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-busra-dot-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-busra-dot-fonts/Mo5V56do.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-busra-dot-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-busra-dot-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-busra-dot-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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