How To Install ipa-pmincho-fonts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-pmincho-fonts on CentOS 7. ipa-pmincho-fonts is Japanese Proportional Mincho-typeface OpenType font by IPA

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-pmincho-fonts on CentOS 7.

What is ipa-pmincho-fonts

IPA Font is a Japanese OpenType fonts that is JIS X 0213 compliant, provided by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. This package contains Proportional Mincho style font.

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

Install ipa-pmincho-fonts on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ipa-pmincho-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipa-pmincho-fonts

Install ipa-pmincho-fonts 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 ipa-pmincho-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipa-pmincho-fonts

How To Uninstall ipa-pmincho-fonts on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ipa-pmincho-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipa-pmincho-fonts

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-pmincho-fonts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.