How To Install wqy-microhei-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-microhei-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. wqy-microhei-fonts is Compact Chinese fonts derived from Droid

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-microhei-fonts on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `wqy-microhei-fonts`

A new Sans Serif CJK font derived from Google’s “Droid Sans Fallback” and covers the entire GBK code points (20932 Han glyphs).

We can use yum or dnf to install wqy-microhei-fonts on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wqy-microhei-fonts.

Install wqy-microhei-fonts 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 wqy-microhei-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wqy-microhei-fonts

Install wqy-microhei-fonts 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 wqy-microhei-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wqy-microhei-fonts

How To Uninstall wqy-microhei-fonts on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove wqy-microhei-fonts

wqy-microhei-fonts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-wqy-microhei.conf
/usr/share/doc/wqy-microhei-fonts
/usr/share/doc/wqy-microhei-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/66-wqy-microhei.conf
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-microhei
/usr/share/fonts/wqy-microhei/wqy-microhei.ttc
/usr/share/licenses/wqy-microhei-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/wqy-microhei-fonts/LICENSE_Apache2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wqy-microhei-fonts/LICENSE_GPLv3.txt

References

wqy-microhei-fonts website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wqy-microhei-fonts on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.