- Issued:
- 2008-02-28
- Updated:
- 2008-02-28
RHEA-2008:0163 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
New liberation-fonts package
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Topic
A new fonts package, liberation-fonts, which obsoletes the fonts-monotype
package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 9 is now available.
Description
The Liberation Fonts are a non-proprietary, metric-compatible alternative
to three common proprietary typefaces: Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier
New.
This new package includes three typefaces:
- Sans (an alternative to Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and
Bitstream Vera Sans).
- Serif (an alternative to Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and
Bitstream Vera Serif).
- Mono (an alternative to Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L,
and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono).
To allow for a seamless switch from the fonts-monotype package (which
included Albany, Thorndale, and Cumberland, three proprietary typefaces
with similar metrics to Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New), the
liberation-fonts package obsoletes fonts-monotype. Installing
liberation-fonts will, therefore, remove fonts-monotype.
All users wanting access to non-proprietary typefaces should install this
newly-released package.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 431219 - [RHEL3] liberation-fonts needs to be added
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
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