How To Install sil-gentium-basic-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-basic-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-gentium-basic-fonts is SIL Gentium Basic font family

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/).