How To Install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 7.

What is gnome-font-viewer

Use gnome-font-viewer, the Font Viewer, to preview fonts and display information about a specified font. You can use the Font Viewer to display the name, style, type, size, version and copyright of the font.

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

Install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-font-viewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-font-viewer

Install gnome-font-viewer 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 gnome-font-viewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-font-viewer

How To Uninstall gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gnome-font-viewer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-font-viewer

References

• gnome-font-viewer website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-font-viewer on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.