How To Install sil-ezra-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-ezra-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-ezra-fonts is Ezra SIL, an Hebrew font family

Introduction

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

What is `sil-ezra-fonts`

The Ezra SIL font families are fashioned after the square letter forms of the typography of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), a beautiful Old Testament volume familiar to Biblical Hebrew scholars. The different font families are available to provide two different styles of cantillation marks. They were developed together, but there are some differences in how they display markings. This was done intentionally. The Ezra SIL font family is supposed to render text identically to the printed BHS.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install sil-ezra-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install sil-ezra-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-ezra-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sil-ezra-fonts

sil-ezra-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-sil-ezra-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-ezra-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-ezra-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-ezra-fonts/Filelist.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-ezra-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-ezra-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-sil-ezra-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-ezra-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-ezra-fonts/SILEOT.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-ezra-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-ezra-fonts/Licenses.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-ezra-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

sil-ezra-fonts website

Summary

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