How To Install fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8.
What is fontawesome-fonts-web
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 CSS, SCSS and LESS style files as well as Web Open Font Format versions 1 and 2, Embedded OpenType and SVG font files which are typically used on the web.
We can use yum or dnf to install fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontawesome-fonts-web.
Install fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fontawesome-fonts-web using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fontawesome-fonts-web
Install fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8 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-web using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fontawesome-fonts-web
How To Uninstall fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fontawesome-fonts-web package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fontawesome-fonts-web
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontawesome-fonts-web on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.