How To Install smc-suruma-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smc-suruma-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is smc-suruma-fonts
Suruma-3.2.1 is a rehash of earlier releases. The earlier idea of akhand conjuncts for *RA *LA forms is revisited and implemented again with the new opentype specs. The new specs do away with statically-assigned character properties (by the shaping engine) for consonants. Instead, they are font dependent. i.e., post-base forms, below-base forms etc. are all decided by the the font itself. This concept was also used in the initial version of suruma font.
We can use yum or dnf to install smc-suruma-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install smc-suruma-fonts.
Install smc-suruma-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-suruma-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install smc-suruma-fonts
Install smc-suruma-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-suruma-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install smc-suruma-fonts
How To Uninstall smc-suruma-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the smc-suruma-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove smc-suruma-fonts
smc-suruma-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-suruma.conf
/usr/share/doc/smc-suruma-fonts
/usr/share/doc/smc-suruma-fonts/README.md
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/67-smc-suruma.conf
/usr/share/fonts/smc-suruma
/usr/share/fonts/smc-suruma/Suruma.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/smc-suruma-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/smc-suruma-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/smc-suruma.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smc-suruma-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
