How To Install sil-gentium-basic-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-basic-fonts
on Fedora 36.
What is sil-gentium-basic-fonts
Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic are font families based on the original Gentium design, but with additional weights. Both families come with a complete regular, bold, italic and bold italic set of fonts. These “Basic” fonts support only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and punctuation. This is the base variant.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sil-gentium-basic-fonts
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sil-gentium-basic-fonts.
Install sil-gentium-basic-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-gentium-basic-fonts
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sil-gentium-basic-fonts
Install sil-gentium-basic-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-gentium-basic-fonts
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sil-gentium-basic-fonts
How To Uninstall sil-gentium-basic-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the sil-gentium-basic-fonts
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sil-gentium-basic-fonts
sil-gentium-basic-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/59-sil-gentium-basic-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/59-sil-gentium-basic-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-fonts/GenBasB.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-fonts/GenBasBI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-fonts/GenBasI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-basic-fonts/GenBasR.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-basic-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-basic-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-gentium-basic-fonts.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-basic-fonts
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).