How To Install freetype-demos on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype-demos on CentOS 7.

What is freetype-demos

The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. The demos package includes a set of useful small utilities showing various capabilities of the FreeType library.

We can use yum or dnf to install freetype-demos on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetype-demos.

Install freetype-demos on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install freetype-demos using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freetype-demos

Install freetype-demos 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 freetype-demos using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freetype-demos

How To Uninstall freetype-demos on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the freetype-demos package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freetype-demos

References

• freetype-demos website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype-demos on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.