How To Install smc-meera-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install smc-meera-fonts in Fedora 36. smc-meera-fonts is Open Type Fonts for Malayalam script

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install smc-meera-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `smc-meera-fonts`

Meera font is a Malayalam font designed by Hussain K H and maintained by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing project. This is a comprehensive Malayalam font with 1000+ glyphs for all common Malayalam ligatures.

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

Install smc-meera-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 smc-meera-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install smc-meera-fonts

Install smc-meera-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 smc-meera-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install smc-meera-fonts

How To Uninstall smc-meera-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the smc-meera-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove smc-meera-fonts

smc-meera-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-smc-meera.conf
/usr/share/doc/smc-meera-fonts
/usr/share/doc/smc-meera-fonts/README.md
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-0-smc-meera.conf
/usr/share/fonts/smc-meera
/usr/share/fonts/smc-meera/Meera-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/smc-meera-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/smc-meera-fonts/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/smc-meera.metainfo.xml

References

smc-meera-fonts website

Summary

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