Information about the package, bitmap-fonts-compat, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The bitmap-fonts-compat package is designed for, Compatibility files of bitmap-font families.
Package Name:
bitmap-fonts-compat
Summary:
Compatibility files of bitmap-font families
Description:
The bitmap-fonts package provides a number of bitmap fonts selected from the xorg package designed for use locations such as terminals. Meta-package for installing all font families of bitmap.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.3
Release:
15.el6
Size:
5.8 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
Lucida and MIT and Public Domain and GPLv2
Control the bitmap-fonts-compat package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will install bitmap-fonts-compat on the server.
yum remove bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will un-install bitmap-fonts-compat on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bitmap-fonts-compat, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will un-install bitmap-fonts-compat on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bitmap-fonts-compat when using the -y flag.
yum update bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will update bitmap-fonts-compat to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bitmap-fonts-compat, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will update bitmap-fonts-compat to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bitmap-fonts-compat when using the -y flag.
yum info bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will show you core information about the bitmap-fonts-compat package.
yum deplist bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will show you the dependencies for bitmap-fonts-compat. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update bitmap-fonts-compat
This command will check if there is an update waiting on bitmap-fonts-compat. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.