How To Install sil-scheherazade-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-scheherazade-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-scheherazade-fonts is An Arabic script unicode font

Introduction

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

What is `sil-scheherazade-fonts`

Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, is designed in a similar style to traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install sil-scheherazade-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install sil-scheherazade-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-scheherazade-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sil-scheherazade-fonts

sil-scheherazade-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-sil-scheherazade.conf
/usr/share/appdata/sil-scheherazade.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/sil-scheherazade-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-scheherazade-fonts/DOCUMENTATION.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-scheherazade-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-scheherazade-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-scheherazade-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-scheherazade-fonts/Scheherazade-features.odt
/usr/share/doc/sil-scheherazade-fonts/Scheherazade-features.pdf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-sil-scheherazade.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-scheherazade
/usr/share/fonts/sil-scheherazade/Scheherazade-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-scheherazade/Scheherazade-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-scheherazade-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-scheherazade-fonts/OFL.txt

References

sil-scheherazade-fonts website

Summary

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