How To Install sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts is Gentium Plus Compact, a Latin/Greek/Cyrillic font family

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts`

Gentium is a font family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. Gentium was a winner of the TDC2003 Type Design Competition and was exhibited as part of the bukva 13 Feb, 2002. The Gentium Plus Compact font family was derived from Gentium Plus using SIL TypeTuner, by setting the “Line spacing” feature to “Tight”, and it cannot be TypeTuned again. It may exhibit some diacritics clipping on screen (but should print fine).

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

Install sil-gentium-plus-compact-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-plus-compact-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts

Install sil-gentium-plus-compact-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-plus-compact-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts

sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/DOCUMENTATION.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/GENTIUM-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/GentiumPlus-features.odt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/61-sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/GentiumPlusCompact-I.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/GentiumPlusCompact-R.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts website

Summary

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