How to remove all noto-fonts

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Hello,

i run:

# System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2026-06-28 15:19:12

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              TUXEDO TUXEDO Polaris 17 Intel Gen1
- **Memory:**                                      16.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   Intel® Core™ i7-10750H × 12
- **Graphics:**                                    Intel® UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
- **Graphics 1:**                                  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti
- **Disk Capacity:**                               750.2 GB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            N.1.05
- **OS Name:**                                     Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition)
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               50
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 7.0.13-200.fc44.x86_64

I would like to get rid off of all the noto-fonts. I think that I do not need them. There ist a lot of
google-noto-*-fonts
on my system.
How best to remove them without running multiple times:
sudo dnf remove google-noto-….?

Thank you in advance.

2

Try:

dnf remove "google-noto-*-fonts" --assumeno

to see what would be removed. (The double quotes ensure that the * wildcard is interpreted by dnf, not by the shell.)

On the KDE edition this would remove a lot of other packages which depend on the Noto fonts, but maybe in Workstation they can be cleanly removed - I’m not sure.

4

results in

[15:56:54]jojo@waldstadion:~$ dnf remove "google-noto-*-fonts" --assumeno
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: installed package fontconfig-2.17.0-4.fc44.x86_64 requires font(:lang=en), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package cairo-1.18.4-6.fc44.x86_64 requires libfontconfig.so.1()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package default-fonts-core-sans-4.3-1.fc44.noarch requires google-noto-sans-vf-fonts, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package gnome-shell-50.2-1.fc44.x86_64 requires libcairo.so.2()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
5

Like @pg-tips said above, you’re going to have a lot of dependency issues since Noto Sans is the default font for Fedora and a lot of bits going to be depend on it being present.

That said you can try the following slightly amended DNF line if you’re using Gnome to show what your damage will be. You can omit the --noautoremove if you’d like, but you’ll increase your chances of blowing up your installation.

sudo dnf remove "google-noto-*-fonts" --exclude google-noto-sans-vf-fonts --noautoremove --assumeno

You could likely follow the steps at this wiki link to hide the fonts from appearing in applications if you just want to remove clutter.