How To Install lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 7.

What is lohit-tamil-fonts

This package provides a free Tamil truetype/opentype font.

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

Install lohit-tamil-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 lohit-tamil-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lohit-tamil-fonts

Install lohit-tamil-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 lohit-tamil-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lohit-tamil-fonts

How To Uninstall lohit-tamil-fonts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove lohit-tamil-fonts

References

• lohit-tamil-fonts website

Summary

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