How To Install freetype on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype
on CentOS 7.
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. 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetype.
Install freetype on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install freetype
using yum
by running the following command:
Install freetype 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 freetype
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall freetype on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the freetype
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.