greetings.
in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse.
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
tia.
On 8/22/2016 8:47 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse.
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
did you install these via yum or rpm or what?
thank you for replying, John, Frank.
On 08/22/2016 10:56 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 8/22/2016 8:47 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse.
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
did you install these via yum or rpm or what?
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used yumex
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On 08/22/2016 10:57 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:47:06 -0500 geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
/var/log/yum.log
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yes, they show in yum.log.
when trying to 'yum remove [package-name]', yum also tries to remove libreoffice packages as well.
should i use 'rpm -e --nodeps [package-name]' instead of yum?
ria, i want to be sure i do not screw worse.
On 08/22/2016 11:17 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: <<>>
should i use 'rpm -e --nodeps [package-name]' instead of yum?
ria, i want to be sure i do not screw worse.
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decided to go ahead with using 'rpm' and that did the trick.
now to figure out hth to get correct fonts installed.
thanks again for replies.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:47:06PM -0500, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
greetings.
in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse.
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
While I see yum.log was mentioned, I didn't see mention of yum history.
If you type it (you have to use root or sudo), you get a history of your yum transactoins. So you might see something like
184 | update | 2016-08-20 16:48 | Update
(Sorry if formatting is off). In your case, you might see
185 install bad_font |<date> |Install
You can then use
yum undo 185
This will undo the yum transaction that installed the font.
I realize you've solved your issue for the moment, but the history option is quite useful.
hello Scott.
On 08/23/2016 04:40 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:47:06PM -0500, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
greetings.
in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse.
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
While I see yum.log was mentioned, I didn't see mention of yum history.
If you type it (you have to use root or sudo), you get a history of your yum transactoins. So you might see something like
184 | update | 2016-08-20 16:48 | Update
(Sorry if formatting is off). In your case, you might see
185 install bad_font |<date> |Install
You can then use
yum undo 185
This will undo the yum transaction that installed the font.
I realize you've solved your issue for the moment, but the history option is quite useful.
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besides versatility of yum, vastness of arguments is, for me, an enjoyable learning process.
when i found yumex wanting to also remove libreoffice files, i dropped back to yum. when yum also wanted to remove libreoffice, it was back to 'man yum'. i saw history, but only read what it would do.
failing to find anything to remove _only_ what i wrongly installed, it was back to basics and rpm.
after reading your reply, i ran 'man yum' again to reread 'history'.
having done so, i am at wonder just how 'history' and its arguments would handle remove wrong fonts and not include libreoffice.
at this time, i am considering installing bad fonts again just to see what will happen.
at this time, i have more pressing duties, but will give 'yum history' a run later and post back with results.
thank you for reply and piquing my brain for further knowledge.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:28:35AM -0500, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
besides versatility of yum, vastness of arguments is, for me, an enjoyable learning process.
when i found yumex wanting to also remove libreoffice files, i dropped back to yum. when yum also wanted to remove libreoffice, it was back to 'man yum'. i saw history, but only read what it would do.
failing to find anything to remove _only_ what i wrongly installed, it was back to basics and rpm.
after reading your reply, i ran 'man yum' again to reread 'history'.
having done so, i am at wonder just how 'history' and its arguments would handle remove wrong fonts and not include libreoffice.
at this time, i am considering installing bad fonts again just to see what will happen.
at this time, i have more pressing duties, but will give 'yum history' a run later and post back with results.
thank you for reply and piquing my brain for further knowledge.
Back when you asked your original question I was certain someone would mention yum history. So I tried it out myself. What I came up with was essentially "what actions involved packages with "font" in their names. I'll just show a bit of the output. ID is a sequential yum session #. My highest is about 120. "yum history" will show them including dates.
$ sudo yum history packages '*font*'
ID | Action(s) | Package ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 84 | Dep-Install | mathjax-ams-fonts-2.4.0-1.el7.noarch 84 | Dep-Install | mathjax-caligraphic-fonts-2.4.0-1.el7.noarch 84 | Dep-Install | mathjax-fraktur-fonts-2.4.0-1.el7.noarch 78 | Updated | libXfont-1.4.7-3.el7_1.x86_64 78 | Update | 1.5.1-2.el7.x86_64 78 | Updated | liberation-fonts-common-1:1.07.2-14.el7.noarch 78 | Update | 1:1.07.2-15.el7.noarch 1 | Dep-Install | abattis-cantarell-fonts-0.0.12-3.el7.noarch 1 | Install | cjkuni-uming-fonts-0.2.20080216.1-53.el7.noarch 1 | Dep-Install | dejavu-fonts-common-2.33-6.el7.noarch 1 | Install | dejavu-sans-fonts-2.33-6.el7.noarch
So you can pick out which were just installed vs which were installed as dependencies of some other package.
Jon
On 08/22/2016 08:47 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
greetings.
in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse.
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
tia.
I use rpm -qa --last
which gives me a reverse chronological order of what I installed via yum OR rpm.
Once you get this you can query the individual package files, etc.
On 08/25/2016 01:00 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
On 08/22/2016 08:47 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
greetings.
in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse.
how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note of what i was adding?
tia.
I use rpm -qa --last
which gives me a reverse chronological order of what I installed via yum OR rpm.
Once you get this you can query the individual package files, etc.
Or you could do 'rpm -qa|grep fonts'. I'm pretty sure that all the font packages have the word 'fonts' in then.
Also, I don't believe it will harm anything to install the 'wrong fonts'... except that they will take up disk space unnecessarily.
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