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

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch is Common files for freefont (documentation…)

Introduction

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

What is `gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch`

Gnu FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatibility with all modern operating systems. Besides a full set of characters for writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, FreeFont contains large selection of characters from other writing systems some of which are hard to find elsewhere. FreeFont also contains a large set of symbol characters, both technical and decorative. We are especially pleased with the Mathematical Operators range, with which most of the glyphs used in LaTeX can be displayed. This package consists of files used by other gnu-free-fonts packages.

We can use yum to install gnu-free-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 gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch.

Install gnu-free-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 gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch

gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503/README

References

gnu-free-fonts-common.noarch website

Summary

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