Information about the package, gnu-free-fonts-common, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gnu-free-fonts-common package is designed for, Common files for freefont (documentation…).
Package Name:
gnu-free-fonts-common
Summary:
Common files for freefont (documentation…)
Description:
Gnu FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatibility with all modern operating systems. Besides a full set of characters for writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, FreeFont contains large selection of characters from other writing systems some of which are hard to find elsewhere. FreeFont also contains a large set of symbol characters, both technical and decorative. We are especially pleased with the Mathematical Operators range, with which most of the glyphs used in LaTeX can be displayed. This package consists of files used by other gnu-free-fonts packages.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
20100919
Release:
3.el6
Size:
187 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+ with special font exception
Control the gnu-free-fonts-common package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will install gnu-free-fonts-common on the server.
yum remove gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will un-install gnu-free-fonts-common on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnu-free-fonts-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will un-install gnu-free-fonts-common 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 gnu-free-fonts-common when using the -y flag.
yum update gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will update gnu-free-fonts-common to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnu-free-fonts-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will update gnu-free-fonts-common 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 gnu-free-fonts-common when using the -y flag.
yum info gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will show you core information about the gnu-free-fonts-common package.
yum deplist gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will show you the dependencies for gnu-free-fonts-common. 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 gnu-free-fonts-common
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gnu-free-fonts-common. 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.