How To Install fontopia on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontopia
on CentOS 7.
What is fontopia
Fontopia is an easy-to-use, text-based, console font editor. Fontopia is not only a conversion tool, it includes complete features to re-size and manipulate glyphs, edit font metrics and other meta-data. Unlike other console font tools, fontopia works on both PSF 1 & 2, PCF, CP and Raw fonts. Type conversion is as simple as changing font type in memory and saving it to disk in the other version. Fontopia allows exporting and importing of Unicode tables from external files or other fonts. It provides a user-friendly, easy-to-use glyph editor. It can easily change font metrics, e.g. length, width, height, etc. It performs basic glyph operations like inversion, flipping, setting/unsetting bits, and much more. Fontopia is the first dedicated text-based editor for console fonts.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fontopia
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fontopia.
Install fontopia on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fontopia
using yum
by running the following command:
Install fontopia 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.
After updating yum database, We can install fontopia
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fontopia on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fontopia
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontopia
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.