How To Install sil-mingzat-fonts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-mingzat-fonts on CentOS 7. sil-mingzat-fonts is A font for Lepcha script

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-mingzat-fonts on CentOS 7.

What is sil-mingzat-fonts

Mingzat is based on Jason Glavy’s JG Lepcha font which was a custom-encoded font. The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font that would contain all Lepcha characters. In addition, there is provision for other Latin characters and symbols. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies (Graphite and OpenType) to support the need for conjuncts and to position arbitrary combinations of Lepcha glyphs and combining marks optimally.

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

Install sil-mingzat-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 sil-mingzat-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sil-mingzat-fonts

Install sil-mingzat-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 sil-mingzat-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sil-mingzat-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-mingzat-fonts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove sil-mingzat-fonts

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Summary

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