How to check and update new font in Centos/Redhat Linux ?
Today lets see how to check and update new fonts in CentOS or Redhat Linux.
This is very useful tip to manage fonts on your Linux system.
Lets see if our system has “DejaVu Serif” font installed or not.
I. Check available fonts and grep the font you are looking for.
[user@ngelinux001 ]$ fc-list | grep -i deja DejaVu Serif,DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Condensed,Book DejaVu Serif,DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Condensed Bold Italic,Bold Italic DejaVu Serif,DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Condensed Bold,Bold DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Oblique,Oblique DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique DejaVu LGC Sans Mono:style=Oblique DejaVu Serif:style=Bold Italic DejaVu Sans:style=Bold Oblique DejaVu LGC Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique DejaVu LGC Sans Mono:style=Bold DejaVu LGC Sans Mono:style=Book DejaVu Sans:style=Oblique DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold Oblique,Bold Oblique DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Light:style=ExtraLight DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed,Book DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold,Bold DejaVu Serif,DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Condensed Italic,Italic DejaVu Sans:style=Bold DejaVu Sans:style=Book DejaVu Serif:style=Italic DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold DejaVu Serif:style=Book DejaVu Serif:style=Bold [user@ngelinux001 ]$
II. Check the RPM package for font if installed.
[user@fav-parasoft dejavu]$ rpm -qa --last | grep -i dejavu dejavu-serif-fonts-2.33-6.el7.noarch Fri 08 Apr 2022 07:18:04 AM PDT dejavu-sans-fonts-2.33-6.el7.noarch Fri 08 Apr 2022 07:15:58 AM PDT dejavu-sans-mono-fonts-2.33-6.el7.noarch Fri 08 Apr 2022 07:15:37 AM PDT dejavu-fonts-common-2.33-6.el7.noarch Fri 08 Apr 2022 07:15:13 AM PDT
III. Check out the available fonts on the system.
[user@fav-parasoft fonts]$ cd /usr/share/fonts; ls -ltr total 32 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 123 Apr 8 07:15 abattis-cantarell drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 38 Apr 8 07:17 default drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 07:18 liberation drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 07:18 dejavu drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 113 Apr 8 07:18 google-crosextra-caladea drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 26 Apr 8 07:18 opensymbol drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 113 Apr 8 07:18 google-crosextra-carlito drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 8192 Apr 8 07:18 culmus drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 99 Apr 8 07:23 thai-scalable drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 75 Apr 8 07:23 khmeros drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 23 Apr 8 07:23 smc drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 88 Apr 8 07:23 nhn-nanum drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 32 Apr 8 07:24 lohit-gujarati drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 28 Apr 8 07:25 wqy-zenhei drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 29 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-oriya drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 31 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-bengali drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 34 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-devanagari drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 23 Apr 8 07:25 madan drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 114 Apr 8 07:25 paratype-pt-sans drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 254 Apr 8 07:25 overpass drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 35 Apr 8 07:25 paktype-naskh-basic drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 101 Apr 8 07:25 stix drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 32 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-assamese drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 23 Apr 8 07:25 lklug drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 30 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-nepali drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 31 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-kannada drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 33 Apr 8 07:25 sil-abyssinica drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 26 Apr 8 07:25 sil-nuosu drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 23 Apr 8 07:25 cjkuni-uming drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 29 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-tamil drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 35 Apr 8 07:25 vlgothic drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 30 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-telugu drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 30 Apr 8 07:25 wqy-microhei drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 31 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-marathi drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 33 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-malayalam drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 43 Apr 8 07:25 jomolhari drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 31 Apr 8 07:25 lohit-punjabi drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 07:25 open-sans drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 07:25 ucs-miscfixed drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 47 Apr 8 07:25 sil-padauk drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 07:25 gnu-free [user@fav-parasoft fonts]$ [user@fav-parasoft fonts]$ cd dejavu/ [user@fav-parasoft dejavu]$ ls -ltr total 9040 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 345204 Feb 27 2011 DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 643852 Feb 27 2011 DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 576004 Feb 27 2011 DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 631992 Feb 27 2011 DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 580168 Feb 27 2011 DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 672300 Feb 27 2011 DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 611212 Feb 27 2011 DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
IV. To add a new font file manually.
a. Copy all font files in a directory inside /usr/share/fonts/newfont b. Recreate font cache : fc-cache -f /usr/share/fonts/
V. Export Display to your local system and try to check the new font.
bash-4.2$ export DISPLAY=172.18.26.166:10.0 bash-4.2$ gnome-font-viewer DejaVuSansMono.ttf
VI. New font window will appear like below.
