Information about the package, root-fonts, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The root-fonts package is designed for, ROOT font collection.
Package Name:
root-fonts
Summary:
ROOT font collection
Description:
This package contains fonts used by ROOT that are not available in Fedora. In particular it contains STIX version 0.9 that is used by TMathText. For EPEL it also provides the Google Droid Sans Fallback font.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
5.34.36
Release:
1.el6
Size:
2.2 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the root-fonts package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install root-fonts
This command will install root-fonts on the server.
yum remove root-fonts
This command will un-install root-fonts on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove root-fonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove root-fonts
This command will un-install root-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 root-fonts when using the -y flag.
yum update root-fonts
This command will update root-fonts to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove root-fonts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update root-fonts
This command will update root-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 root-fonts when using the -y flag.
yum info root-fonts
This command will show you core information about the root-fonts package.
yum deplist root-fonts
This command will show you the dependencies for root-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 root-fonts
This command will check if there is an update waiting on root-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.