How To Install sil-dai-banna-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-dai-banna-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-dai-banna-fonts is Dai Banna SIL, a font family for rendering New Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna Dai)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-dai-banna-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is sil-dai-banna-fonts

Dai Banna includes a complete set of New Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna Dai) consonants, vowels, tones, and digits, along with punctuation and other useful symbols. A basic set of Latin glyphs, including Arabic numerals, is also provided. The New Tai Lue script is used by approximately 300 000 people who speak the Xishuangbanna Dai language in Yunnan, China.  It is a simplification of the Tai Tham (Old Tai Lue) script as used for this language for hundreds of years. The Dai News Department of Xishuangbanna Daily provided valuable advice during the development of this font family. Xishuangbanna Daily, established in 1957, is the largest newspaper company in Yunnan, China that publishes in the New Tai Lue script.

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

Install sil-dai-banna-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-dai-banna-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sil-dai-banna-fonts

Install sil-dai-banna-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-dai-banna-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sil-dai-banna-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-dai-banna-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sil-dai-banna-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sil-dai-banna-fonts

sil-dai-banna-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-sil-dai-banna-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-dai-banna-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-dai-banna-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-dai-banna-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-sil-dai-banna-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILBB.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILBC.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILBO.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILBR.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILLB.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILLC.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILLO.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-dai-banna-fonts/DBSILLR.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-dai-banna-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-dai-banna-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-dai-banna-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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