How To Install sil-mingzat-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-mingzat-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is sil-mingzat-fonts
Mingzat is based on Jason Glavy’s JG Lepcha font which was a custom-encoded font. The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font that would contain all Lepcha characters. In addition, there is provision for other Latin characters and symbols. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies (Graphite and OpenType) to support the need for conjuncts and to position arbitrary combinations of Lepcha glyphs and combining marks optimally.
We can use yum or dnf to install sil-mingzat-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sil-mingzat-fonts.
Install sil-mingzat-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-mingzat-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sil-mingzat-fonts
Install sil-mingzat-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-mingzat-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sil-mingzat-fonts
How To Uninstall sil-mingzat-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the sil-mingzat-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sil-mingzat-fonts
sil-mingzat-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-sil-mingzat.conf
/usr/share/appdata/sil-mingzat.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/sil-mingzat-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-mingzat-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-mingzat-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-mingzat-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-mingzat-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-sil-mingzat.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-mingzat
/usr/share/fonts/sil-mingzat/Mingzat-Regular.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-mingzat-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).