Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-fonts-common on CentOS 8.
What is amiri-fonts-common
Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text. Amiri is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in early 20th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, after which the font is named. This package consists of files used by other amiri-fonts packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install amiri-fonts-common on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amiri-fonts-common.
Install amiri-fonts-common on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install amiri-fonts-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install amiri-fonts-common
Install amiri-fonts-common on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install amiri-fonts-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install amiri-fonts-common
How To Uninstall amiri-fonts-common on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the amiri-fonts-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove amiri-fonts-common
amiri-fonts-common Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/Documentation-Arabic.pdf
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/NEWS-Arabic
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/README
/usr/share/doc/amiri-fonts-common/README-Arabic
/usr/share/licenses/amiri-fonts-common
/usr/share/licenses/amiri-fonts-common/OFL.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amiri-fonts-common on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
