This npm package requires FontForge 2 which is not available on the base repo of Centos 6 (the current one is very outdated...dating to 2009!). Looking for prebuilt RPMs proved difficult, if not pointless so I decided to take a shot in compiling from sources. Since compiling FontForge 2 on Linux is a royal pain in the ass, I hope that this document will save you some time (read hours!):
Install these packages with yum:
$ sudo yum install libtool libtool-ltdl libtool-ltdl-devel libuninameslist-devel libXt-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel gettext pango-devel cairo-devel freetype-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel ibpng libpng-devel giflib-devel giflib libjpeg-turbo-devel libjpeg-turbo libtiff-devel libtiff libspiro-devel libspiro cairo
Install autoconf 2.69 from rpm:
$ wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/monkeyiq:/centos6updates/CentOS_CentOS-6/noarch/autoconf-2.69-12.2.noarch.rpm $ sudo yum localinstall autoconf-2.69-12.2.noarch.rpm
Install the iPython module:
$ pip2.7 install ipython
Install bdwgc:
$git clone https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/ $ push bdwgc $ git clone https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/ $ pushd libatomic_ops && ./configure $ make && sudo make install $ popd $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure $ make && sudo make install $ popd
Install FontForge 2:
$git clone https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.git $ pushd && ./bootstrap $ ./configure $ make && sudo make install
