How To Install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 7.
What is fontawesome-fonts
Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS. This package contains OpenType and TrueType font files which are typically used locally.
We can use yum or dnf to install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontawesome-fonts.
Install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fontawesome-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fontawesome-fonts
Install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fontawesome-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fontawesome-fonts
How To Uninstall fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fontawesome-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fontawesome-fonts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
