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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fontopia using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fontopia
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fontopia using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fontopia
How To Uninstall fontopia on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fontopia package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fontopia
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fontopia on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
