Information about the package, bdftruncate, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The bdftruncate package is designed for, Generate truncated BDF font from ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font.
Package Name:
bdftruncate
Summary:
Generate truncated BDF font from ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font
URL:
Description:
bdftruncate allows one to generate from an ISO10646-1 encoded BDF font other ISO10646-1 BDF fonts in which all characters above a threshold code value are stored unencoded. This is often desirable because the Xlib API and X11 protocol data structures used for representing font metric information are extremely inefficient when handling sparsely populated fonts.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
7.2
Release:
11.el6
Size:
13 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the bdftruncate package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install bdftruncate
This command will install bdftruncate on the server.
yum remove bdftruncate
This command will un-install bdftruncate on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bdftruncate, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove bdftruncate
This command will un-install bdftruncate 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 bdftruncate when using the -y flag.
yum update bdftruncate
This command will update bdftruncate to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bdftruncate, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update bdftruncate
This command will update bdftruncate 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 bdftruncate when using the -y flag.
yum info bdftruncate
This command will show you core information about the bdftruncate package.
yum deplist bdftruncate
This command will show you the dependencies for bdftruncate. 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 bdftruncate
This command will check if there is an update waiting on bdftruncate. 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.