How To Install vlgothic-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vlgothic-fonts in Fedora 36. vlgothic-fonts is Japanese TrueType font

Introduction

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

What is `vlgothic-fonts`

VLGothic provides Japanese TrueType fonts from the Vine Linux project. Most of the glyphs are taken from the M+ and Sazanami Gothic fonts, but some have also been improved by the project. This package provides the monospace VLGothic font.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install vlgothic-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install vlgothic-fonts

How To Uninstall vlgothic-fonts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove vlgothic-fonts

vlgothic-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-3-vlgothic-gothic.conf
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts/README
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts/README.sazanami
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts/README_E.mplus
/usr/share/doc/vlgothic-fonts/README_J.mplus
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-3-vlgothic-gothic.conf
/usr/share/fonts/vlgothic
/usr/share/fonts/vlgothic/VL-Gothic-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-fonts/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-fonts/LICENSE.en
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-fonts/LICENSE_E.mplus
/usr/share/licenses/vlgothic-fonts/LICENSE_J.mplus
/usr/share/metainfo/vlgothic.metainfo.xml

References

vlgothic-fonts website

Summary

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