How To Install liberation-mono-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-mono-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. liberation-mono-fonts is Monospace fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Courier New

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-mono-fonts on Rocky Linux 8.

What is liberation-mono-fonts

The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the 3 most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems This package provides Monospace TrueType fonts that replace commonly used Microsoft Courier New.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install liberation-mono-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install liberation-mono-fonts

How To Uninstall liberation-mono-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove liberation-mono-fonts

liberation-mono-fonts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/X11/fontpath.d/liberation-mono-fonts
/etc/fonts/conf.d/59-liberation-mono.conf
/usr/share/appdata/liberation-mono.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/59-liberation-mono.conf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono/.uuid
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono/LiberationMono-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono/fonts.dir
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-mono/fonts.scale

References

Summary

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