How To Install liberation-fonts on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-fonts on CentOS 7.
What is liberation-fonts
The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems Arial, and Courier New. Meta-package of Liberation fonts which installs Sans, Serif, and Monospace, Narrow families.
We can use yum or dnf to install liberation-fonts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install liberation-fonts.
Install liberation-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 liberation-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install liberation-fonts
Install liberation-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 liberation-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install liberation-fonts
How To Uninstall liberation-fonts on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the liberation-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove liberation-fonts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-fonts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
