How To Install lklug-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lklug-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. lklug-fonts is Fonts for Sinhala language

Introduction

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

What is `lklug-fonts`

The lklug-fonts package contains fonts for the display of Sinhala. The original font for TeX/LaTeX is developed by Yannis Haralambous and are in GPL. OTF tables are added by Anuradha Ratnaweera and Harshani Devadithya.

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

Install lklug-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 lklug-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lklug-fonts

Install lklug-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 lklug-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lklug-fonts

How To Uninstall lklug-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove lklug-fonts

lklug-fonts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-lklug.conf
/usr/share/appdata/lklug.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/lklug-fonts/README.fonts
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-lklug.conf
/usr/share/fonts/lklug
/usr/share/fonts/lklug/lklug.ttf

References

lklug-fonts website

Summary

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