How To Install fontpackages-devel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontpackages-devel.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. fontpackages-devel.noarch is Templates and macros used to create font packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontpackages-devel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fontpackages-devel.noarch`

This package contains spec templates, rpm macros and other materials used to create font packages.

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

Install fontpackages-devel.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 fontpackages-devel.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fontpackages-devel.noarch

How To Uninstall fontpackages-devel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fontpackages-devel.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fontpackages-devel.noarch

fontpackages-devel.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/rpm/macros.fonts
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-multi.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-partial-multi.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-partial-simple.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-simple.spec
/usr/share/doc/fontpackages-devel-1.44
/usr/share/doc/fontpackages-devel-1.44/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/fontpackages-devel-1.44/readme.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/basic-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/basic-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/fontconfig-generics.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/fontconfig-priorities.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/index.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/l10n-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/l10n-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/merging-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/merging-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/remapping-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/remapping-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/rescaling-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/rescaling-font-template.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/substitution-font-template.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/substitution-font-template.txt

References

fontpackages-devel.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fontpackages-devel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.