How To Install unifont-fonts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install unifont-fonts on CentOS 7. unifont-fonts is Unicode font with a glyph for every visible BMP code point

Introduction

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

What is unifont-fonts

A fixed-width Unicode font with a glyph for every visible Unicode 7.0 Basic Multilingual Plane code point and more. The latest version of Unifont includes approximately 54,700 glyphs for all the visible Unicode BMP code points. This font strives for very wide coverage rather than beauty, so use it only as fallback or for special purposes.

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

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

sudo yum -y install unifont-fonts

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

sudo dnf -y install unifont-fonts

How To Uninstall unifont-fonts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove unifont-fonts

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Summary

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