How To Install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. dejavu-fonts-common.noarch is Common files for the Dejavu font set

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dejavu-fonts-common.noarch`

The DejaVu font set is based on the “Bitstream Vera” fonts, release 1.10. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters, while maintaining the original style, using an open collaborative development process. This package consists of files used by other DejaVu packages.

We can use yum to install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch.

Install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch

How To Uninstall dejavu-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dejavu-fonts-common.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dejavu-fonts-common.noarch

dejavu-fonts-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33/README
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33/status.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/dejavu-fonts-common-2.33/unicover.txt

References

dejavu-fonts-common.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dejavu-fonts-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.