How To Install vlgothic-p-fonts on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is vlgothic-p-fonts

VLGothic provides Japanese TrueType fonts from the Vine Linux project. Most of the glyphs are taken from the M+ and Sazanami Gothic fonts, but some have also been improved by the project. This package provides the VLGothic font with proportional glyphs for some non-Japanese characters.

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

Install vlgothic-p-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 vlgothic-p-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vlgothic-p-fonts

Install vlgothic-p-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 vlgothic-p-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vlgothic-p-fonts

How To Uninstall vlgothic-p-fonts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove vlgothic-p-fonts

References

• vlgothic-p-fonts website

Summary

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