How To Install unifont-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install unifont-fonts in Fedora 36. unifont-fonts is Unicode font with a glyph for every visible BMP code point

Introduction

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

What is `unifont-fonts`

A fixed-width Unicode font with a glyph for every visible Unicode 7.0 Basic Multilingual Plane code point (over 55,000 glyphs) and some glyphs beyond BMP. This font strives for very wide coverage rather than beauty, so use it only as fallback or for special purposes.

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

Install unifont-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 unifont-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unifont-fonts

Install unifont-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 unifont-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unifont-fonts

How To Uninstall unifont-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove unifont-fonts

unifont-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/appdata
/usr/share/appdata/unifont.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fonts/unifont
/usr/share/fonts/unifont/unifont.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/unifont/unifont_upper.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/unifont-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/unifont-fonts/COPYING

References

unifont-fonts website

Summary

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