How To Install liberation-fonts-common on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-fonts-common on CentOS 7. liberation-fonts-common is Shared common files of Liberation font families

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-fonts-common on CentOS 7.

What is liberation-fonts-common

The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems Arial, and Courier New. Shared common files of Liberation font families.

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

Install liberation-fonts-common 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-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liberation-fonts-common

Install liberation-fonts-common 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-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liberation-fonts-common

How To Uninstall liberation-fonts-common on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the liberation-fonts-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove liberation-fonts-common

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Summary

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