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

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

Introduction

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

What is `sil-gentium-plus-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.

We can use yum or dnf to install sil-gentium-plus-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-fonts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

sudo dnf remove sil-gentium-plus-fonts

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

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-sil-gentium-plus-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/DOCUMENTATION.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/GENTIUM-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/GentiumPlus-features.odt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-sil-gentium-plus-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-plus-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/GentiumPlus-I.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/GentiumPlus-R.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-plus-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-gentium-plus-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-gentium-plus-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

sil-gentium-plus-fonts website

Summary

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