fonts in f9

[Rick Stevens]

Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:53:10PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Dave Feustel wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:09:28PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05:14 -0800
>>>> Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Uh, I think they mean "xorg-x11-fonts-*".  There is no xorg-x11-conf
>>>>> stuff.
>>>> Yea, I said font up at the top, but somehow my fingers typed conf
>>>> down at the bottom :-). Sorry about the mixup.
>>> OK. That worked better. I got one item - xorg-x11-fonts-utils, but no
>>> font packages.
>> Interesting.  I get:
>>
>> [root at bigdog Documentation]# yum list xorg-x11-fonts*
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> Installed Packages
>> xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch             7.2-6.fc9             installed 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch              7.2-6.fc9             installed 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9             installed 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch              7.2-6.fc9             installed 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch               7.2-6.fc9             installed 
>>
>> Available Packages
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch    7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi.noarch  7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi.noarch  7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi.noarch    7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi.noarch   7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi.noarch    7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic.noarch           7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
>> xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic.noarch           7.2-6.fc9              fedora 
>>
> 
> I get the same list of fonts running the yum command you used.
> 
> Yumex doesn't list any fonts with names beginning with xorg
> as far as I can tell. Yumex *did* list a lot of fonts
> when I specified *font*. I installed a bunch.

Using yumex, I clicked on the "All" button, entered "xorg-x11-fonts*" in 
the search bar and clicked on the binocular icon.  Ended up with the
same stuff that yum showed, but the installed fonts were highlighted in
green with checkmarks next to them.

Should work for you as well.
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