How To Install liberation-sans-fonts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-sans-fonts on CentOS 7. liberation-sans-fonts is Sans-serif fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Arial

Introduction

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

What is liberation-sans-fonts

The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems Arial, and Courier New. This is Sans-serif TrueType fonts that replaced commonly used Microsoft Arial.

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

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

sudo yum -y install liberation-sans-fonts

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

sudo dnf -y install liberation-sans-fonts

How To Uninstall liberation-sans-fonts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove liberation-sans-fonts

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Summary

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