How To Install liberation-serif-fonts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberation-serif-fonts on CentOS 7. liberation-serif-fonts is Serif fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Times New Roman

Introduction

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

What is liberation-serif-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 Serif TrueType fonts that replaced commonly used Microsoft Times New \ Roman.

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

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

sudo yum -y install liberation-serif-fonts

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

sudo dnf -y install liberation-serif-fonts

How To Uninstall liberation-serif-fonts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove liberation-serif-fonts

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Summary

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