Information about the package, stix-variants-fonts, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The stix-variants-fonts package is designed for, STIX scientific and engineering fonts, additional glyph variants.
Package Name:
stix-variants-fonts
Summary:
STIX scientific and engineering fonts, additional glyph variants
Description:
The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. This package includes fonts containing alternative variants of some glyphs.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.9
Release:
13.1.el6
Size:
13 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
STIX
Control the stix-variants-fonts package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install stix-variants-fonts
This command will install stix-variants-fonts on the server.
yum remove stix-variants-fonts
This command will un-install stix-variants-fonts on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove stix-variants-fonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove stix-variants-fonts
This command will un-install stix-variants-fonts 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 stix-variants-fonts when using the -y flag.
yum update stix-variants-fonts
This command will update stix-variants-fonts to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove stix-variants-fonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update stix-variants-fonts
This command will update stix-variants-fonts 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 stix-variants-fonts when using the -y flag.
yum info stix-variants-fonts
This command will show you core information about the stix-variants-fonts package.
yum deplist stix-variants-fonts
This command will show you the dependencies for stix-variants-fonts. 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 stix-variants-fonts
This command will check if there is an update waiting on stix-variants-fonts. 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.