How To Install t1lib on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install t1lib on Rocky Linux 8.
What is t1lib
T1lib is a rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts. It supports rotation and transformation, kerning underlining and antialiasing. It does not depend on X11, but does provides some special functions for X11. AFM-files can be generated from Type 1 font files and font subsetting is possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install t1lib on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install t1lib.
Install t1lib 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 t1lib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install t1lib
Install t1lib 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 t1lib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install t1lib
How To Uninstall t1lib on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the t1lib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove t1lib
t1lib Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/9d3fc81df29127a28aed36a4c31f25eb26be2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/ee906d631c227788ff351889e3f8ecec1a0b08
/usr/lib64/libt1.so.5
/usr/lib64/libt1.so.5.1.2
/usr/lib64/libt1x.so.5
/usr/lib64/libt1x.so.5.1.2
/usr/sbin/t1libconfig
/usr/share/doc/t1lib
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/Changes
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/t1lib/README
/usr/share/man/man5/FontDatabase.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/t1libconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/t1lib
/usr/share/t1lib/FontDatabase
/usr/share/t1lib/t1lib.config
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install t1lib on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.