How To Install sil-ratanakiri-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-ratanakiri-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-ratanakiri-fonts is Khmer Ratanakiri, a Khmer Mool title font family

Introduction

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

What is sil-ratanakiri-fonts

The Mondulkiri font families provide Unicode support for the Khmer script. “Mondulkiri” and “Ratanakiri” are the names of two provinces in north-eastern Cambodia, Busra and Oureang are names of places in Mondulkiri province. Khmer Ratanakiri is a Mool (or Muol or Muul) font family which is frequently used for headings and signs. At this point of time most ligatures have not yet been implemented. Some coengs of independent vowels and other features used only infrequently in normal Khmer text are currently still implemented in a different character style. This font does not support more than one below‐coeng, i.e. words like លក្ស្មណៈ cannot be written in it.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install sil-ratanakiri-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install sil-ratanakiri-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-ratanakiri-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sil-ratanakiri-fonts

sil-ratanakiri-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-sil-ratanakiri-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-ratanakiri-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-ratanakiri-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-ratanakiri-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/66-sil-ratanakiri-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-ratanakiri-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-ratanakiri-fonts/RataV53.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-ratanakiri-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-ratanakiri-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-ratanakiri-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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