How To Install freetype on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype on AlmaLinux 8.
What is freetype
The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.
We can use yum or dnf to install freetype on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetype.
Install freetype on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install freetype using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freetype
Install freetype on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install freetype using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freetype
How To Uninstall freetype on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the freetype package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freetype
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
