Information about the package, freetype, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The freetype package is designed for, A free and portable font rendering engine.
Package Name:
freetype
Summary:
A free and portable font rendering engine
Description:
The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.3.11
Release:
17.el6
Size:
817 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
FTL or GPLv2+
Control the freetype package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install freetype
This command will install freetype on the server.
yum remove freetype
This command will un-install freetype on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freetype, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove freetype
This command will un-install freetype 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 freetype when using the -y flag.
yum update freetype
This command will update freetype to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freetype, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update freetype
This command will update freetype 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 freetype when using the -y flag.
yum info freetype
This command will show you core information about the freetype package.
yum deplist freetype
This command will show you the dependencies for freetype. 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 freetype
This command will check if there is an update waiting on freetype. 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.