[CentOS] how to find recently installed font packages

Thu Aug 25 18:32:43 UTC 2016
ken <gebser at mousecar.com>

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.