How To Install sil-harmattan-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-harmattan-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-harmattan-fonts is Harmattan, a Warsh-style Arabic script font family

Introduction

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

What is `sil-harmattan-fonts`

Harmattan, named after the trade winds that blow during the dry season in West Africa, is designed in a Warsh style to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa. Because the font style is specifically intended for West Africa, the character set for this font is aimed at West African languages. Thus, Asia-specific glyphs are not included.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install sil-harmattan-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install sil-harmattan-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-harmattan-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sil-harmattan-fonts

sil-harmattan-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-sil-harmattan-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-harmattan-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-harmattan-fonts/DOCUMENTATION.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-harmattan-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-harmattan-fonts/Harmattan-features.odt
/usr/share/doc/sil-harmattan-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-harmattan-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-sil-harmattan-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-harmattan-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-harmattan-fonts/Harmattan-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-harmattan-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-harmattan-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-harmattan-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

sil-harmattan-fonts website

Summary

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