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libfonts


Information about the package, libfonts, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libfonts package is designed for, TrueType Font Layouting.


Package Name:

libfonts

Summary:

TrueType Font Layouting

Description:

LibFonts is a library developed to support advanced layouting in JFreeReport. This library allows to read TrueType-Font files to extract layouting specific informations.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.0.0

Release:

3.OOo31.el6

Size:

326 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for libfonts


Control the libfonts package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install libfonts

This command will install libfonts on the server.

yum remove libfonts

This command will un-install libfonts on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libfonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove libfonts

This command will un-install libfonts 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 libfonts when using the -y flag.

yum update libfonts

This command will update libfonts to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libfonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update libfonts

This command will update libfonts 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 libfonts when using the -y flag.

yum info libfonts

This command will show you core information about the libfonts package.

yum deplist libfonts

This command will show you the dependencies for libfonts. 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 libfonts

This command will check if there is an update waiting on libfonts. 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.