Information about the package, fontopia, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fontopia package is designed for, The console font editor.
Package Name:
fontopia
Summary:
The console font editor
Description:
Fontopia is an easy-to-use, text-based, console font editor. Fontopia is not only a conversion tool, it includes complete features to re-size and manipulate glyphs, edit font metrics and other meta-data. Unlike other console font tools, fontopia works on both PSF 1 & 2, CP and Raw fonts. Type conversion is as simple as changing font type in memory and saving it to disk in the other version. Fontopia allows exporting and importing of Unicode tables from external files or other fonts. It provides a user-friendly, easy-to-use glyph editor. It can easily change font metrics, e.g. length, width, height, etc. It performs basic glyph operations like inversion, flipping, setting/unsetting bits, and much more. Fontopia is the first dedicated text-based editor for console fonts.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.7
Release:
1.el6
Size:
122 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the fontopia package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fontopia
This command will install fontopia on the server.
yum remove fontopia
This command will un-install fontopia on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fontopia, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fontopia
This command will un-install fontopia 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 fontopia when using the -y flag.
yum update fontopia
This command will update fontopia to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fontopia, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fontopia
This command will update fontopia 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 fontopia when using the -y flag.
yum info fontopia
This command will show you core information about the fontopia package.
yum deplist fontopia
This command will show you the dependencies for fontopia. 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 fontopia
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fontopia. 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.