How To Install root-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. root-fonts is ROOT font collection

Introduction

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

What is `root-fonts`

This package contains fonts used by ROOT that are not available in Fedora. In particular it contains STIX version 0.9 that is used by TMathText.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install root-fonts

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

sudo yum -y install root-fonts

How To Uninstall root-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove root-fonts

root-fonts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/root/fonts
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneralBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneralBolIta.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXGeneralItalic.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz1Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz1SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz2Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz2SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz3Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz3SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz4Sym.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz4SymBol.otf
/usr/share/root/fonts/STIXSiz5Sym.otf

References

root-fonts website

Summary

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