oldschool-pc-fonts on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "oldschool-pc-fonts" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si

b. Install oldschool-pc-fonts on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S oldschool-pc-fonts

* (Optional) Uninstall oldschool-pc-fonts on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns oldschool-pc-fonts

2. Manually Install "oldschool-pc-fonts" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:

$ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git

b. Clone oldschool-pc-fonts's git locally

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/oldschool-pc-fonts.git ~/oldschool-pc-fonts

c. Go to ~/oldschool-pc-fonts folder and install it

$ cd ~/oldschool-pc-fonts $ makepkg -si

3. Information about the oldschool-pc-fonts package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 828523
Name: oldschool-pc-fonts
PackageBaseID: 107004
PackageBase: oldschool-pc-fonts
Version: 2.2-1
Description: world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
URL: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
NumVotes: 20
Popularity: 0.261767
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: fordprefect
Submitter: fordprefect
FirstSubmitted: 1454490978
LastModified: 1607071739
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/oldschool-pc-fonts.tar.gz