How To Install woff2 on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install woff2 on CentOS 8. woff2 is Web Open Font Format 2.0 library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install woff2 on CentOS 8.

What is woff2

Web Open Font Format (WOFF) 2.0 is an update to the existing WOFF 1.0 with improved compression that is achieved by using the Brotli algorithm. The primary purpose of the WOFF2 format is to efficiently package fonts linked to Web documents by means of CSS @font-face rules. Web Open Font Format (WOFF) 2.0 is an update to the existing WOFF 1.0 with improved compression that is achieved by using the Brotli algorithm. The primary purpose of the WOFF2 format is to efficiently package fonts linked to Web documents by means of CSS @font-face rules.

We can use yum or dnf to install woff2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install woff2.

Install woff2 on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install woff2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install woff2

Install woff2 on CentOS 8 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 woff2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install woff2

How To Uninstall woff2 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the woff2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove woff2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install woff2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.