How To Install paratype-pt-sans-fonts on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paratype-pt-sans-fonts on CentOS 7.
What is paratype-pt-sans-fonts
The PT Sans family was developed as part of the “Public Types of Russian Federation” project. This project aims at enabling the peoples of Russia to read and write their native languages, using free/libre fonts. It is dedicated to the 300-year anniversary of the Russian civil type invented by Peter the Great from 1708 to 1710, and was realized with financial support from the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications. The fonts include support for all 54 title¹ languages of the Russian Federation as well as more common Western, Central European and Cyrillic blocks making them unique and a very important tool for modern digital communications. PT Sans is a grotesque font based on Russian type designs of the second part of the 20th century. However, it also includes very distinctive features of modern humanistic design, fulfilling present day aesthetic and functional requirements. It was designed by Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov and released by ParaType. ¹ A “title” language is named after an ethnic group. This package includes the four basic styles and two narrows styles for economic setting.
We can use yum or dnf to install paratype-pt-sans-fonts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paratype-pt-sans-fonts.
Install paratype-pt-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 paratype-pt-sans-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install paratype-pt-sans-fonts
Install paratype-pt-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 paratype-pt-sans-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install paratype-pt-sans-fonts
How To Uninstall paratype-pt-sans-fonts on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the paratype-pt-sans-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove paratype-pt-sans-fonts
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paratype-pt-sans-fonts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.