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I need xfontsel to select right font for xterm. But its not installed. I tried yum but it returned

Warning: No matches found for: xfontsel
No Matches found

I googled for xfontsel source code to compile myself but didn't get any link for that.

  1. How can I install xfontsel on Fedora 13?
  2. Its not installed by default and neither it is available in yum repo. So does this mean Fedora will not include it anymore? Why?
  3. Any alternative to xfontsel? I tried xlsfonts but it does not give preview of fonts.

Thanks for your time and help.

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$ su -c "yum install xorg-x11-apps.i686"

This did the trick on my Fedora 13.

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    "yum install /usr/bin/xfontsel" (or perhaps just "/bin/fontsel") would have worked too. Commented Jan 17, 2013 at 23:41

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You can find out which package ships a given binary under Fedora like this:

yum provides "*bin/xfontsel"

however this only works if you know the name and directory of the executable. Indeed for xfontsel it is xorg-x11-utils as already stated by Michael:

$ yum provides /usr/bin/xfontsel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirror.nl.as6453.net * livna: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * rpmfusion-free: mirror.telepoint.bg * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.telepoint.bg * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.telepoint.bg * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.telepoint.bg * updates: mirror.nl.as6453.net xorg-x11-apps-7.4-13.fc13.i686 : X.Org X11 applications Repo : fedora Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/xfontsel xorg-x11-apps-7.4-14.fc13.i686 : X.Org X11 applications Repo : updates Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/xfontsel xorg-x11-apps-7.4-14.fc13.i686 : X.Org X11 applications Repo : installed Matched from: Other : Provides-match: /usr/bin/xfontsel
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  • You say it's in xorg-x11-utils yet in the output we see xorg-x11-apps. Why the difference? Commented Nov 26, 2014 at 10:08
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It's not necessarily in its own package, and it's not necessarily in a package named xfontsel. This site leads me to believe it's part of xorg-x11-utils, so installing that should work

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  • It looks like it's part of xorg-x11-apps now (Fedora 21). Commented Nov 26, 2014 at 10:35
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Besides the above mentioned binary rpm's for Fedora, the xfontsel source code is available from X.Org at http://www.x.org/releases/individual/app/xfontsel-1.0.3.tar.bz2

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  • Thanks a lot alanc. I googled for the source code but didn't find it. Really appreciated! Commented Oct 20, 2010 at 2:54

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