Information about the package, ghostscript-fonts, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ghostscript-fonts package is designed for, Fonts for the Ghostscript PostScript interpreter.
Package Name:
ghostscript-fonts
Summary:
Fonts for the Ghostscript PostScript interpreter
Description:
Ghostscript-fonts contains a set of fonts that Ghostscript, a PostScript interpreter, uses to render text. These fonts are in addition to the fonts shared by Ghostscript and the X Window System.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
5.50
Release:
23.2.el6
Size:
1.1 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+ and Hershey and MIT and OFL and Public Domain
Control the ghostscript-fonts package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ghostscript-fonts
This command will install ghostscript-fonts on the server.
yum remove ghostscript-fonts
This command will un-install ghostscript-fonts on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghostscript-fonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ghostscript-fonts
This command will un-install ghostscript-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 ghostscript-fonts when using the -y flag.
yum update ghostscript-fonts
This command will update ghostscript-fonts to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghostscript-fonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ghostscript-fonts
This command will update ghostscript-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 ghostscript-fonts when using the -y flag.
yum info ghostscript-fonts
This command will show you core information about the ghostscript-fonts package.
yum deplist ghostscript-fonts
This command will show you the dependencies for ghostscript-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 ghostscript-fonts
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ghostscript-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.