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    I linked something in the terminal with ln... how do I remove the link?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by ral, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. ral

    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    Improving Fedora fonts I ran this command in the terminal:

    ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

    I am not sure if I like it better or not. To undo the link I understand I should type this:

    rm -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf

    Wanted to confirm before doing this.

    TIA
     
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    Patience is not my virtue... done :)
     
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    A simple rm should be good enough - links are just files on the system (especially symbolic links which have a different file descriptor than the target file/dir).

    Anyways glad that it worked...
     
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    Thanks. I did this to fix the fonts on Fedora... in the end I decided to go with (gulp) Microsoft TrueType fonts.
     
    ral, Jul 19, 2011
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