How To Install kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. kacst-book-fonts is Fonts for arabic from arabeyes project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8.

What is kacst-book-fonts

This package contains book type fonts for the display of Arabic

We can use yum or dnf to install kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kacst-book-fonts.

Install kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install kacst-book-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kacst-book-fonts

Install kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install kacst-book-fonts

How To Uninstall kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the kacst-book-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kacst-book-fonts

kacst-book-fonts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-kacst-book.conf
/usr/share/appdata/kacst-book.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/67-kacst-book.conf
/usr/share/fonts/kacst
/usr/share/fonts/kacst/KacstBook.ttf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kacst-book-fonts on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.