How To Install freetype.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. freetype.x86_64 is A free and portable font rendering engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `freetype.x86_64`

The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

We can use yum to install freetype.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetype.x86_64.

Install freetype.x86_64 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 freetype.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freetype.x86_64

How To Uninstall freetype.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the freetype.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove freetype.x86_64

freetype.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.14.0
/usr/share/doc/freetype-2.8
/usr/share/doc/freetype-2.8/README
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8/GPLv2.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/freetype-2.8/LICENSE.TXT

References

freetype.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetype.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.