Comments on: Installing ttf fonts on Debian or Ubuntu Linux

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By: Jedd

Jedd — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:33:29 +0000

You should probably use /usr/local/share/fonts rather than /usr/share/fonts (the latter is managed by the system, the former (/usr/local) is where you’re allowed to do this kind of installation-specific thing).

Confirm that there are entries in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf – there should be a reference for /usr/local/share/fonts in there already, but it pays to check. Running fc-cache -f after is still required of course.

If you’re going to install lots of new fonts you can maintain a sensible structure, eg. truetype/ , type1/ , and so on.

By: Norman Ramsey

Norman Ramsey — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:25:48 +0000

The tutorial at penguinfonts has been shut down. Does anyone hav a copy?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:44:05 +0000

UPDATE…
Your advice about some fonts causing problems in linux made sense because I had originally dumped many fonts into the directory. I went back and cleared them out, and only re-installed the few that I needed.

This fixed the iceweasel problem, but I still couldn’t see the fonts in OO.o. I found this procedure on the web.

http://machine-cycle.blogspot.com/2008/01/installing-truetype-fonts-on-debian.html

I don’t understand the differnece between your tutorial and the procedue from the link above, but it’s all working ok now.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:01:24 +0000

Hi lavluda, thanks for the prompt reply. Iceweasel crashes with a “segmentation fault”.

Do you think the fonts not appearing in the OO.o font list is related to the iceweasel issue, or totally separate?

Thanks mate

By: lavluda

lavluda — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:26:19 +0000

@rashed, yes, it will work, but then this font will only for work for this user only. you have to do this same work for all users.

By: lavluda

lavluda — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:22:20 +0000

jamie, can you please run firefox from terminal, i think then you will get the error message.

may be some of your fonts have problem for linux. long time back i also faced this problem. and removing that font from the font directory is the solution.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:47:35 +0000

Hi,
I’ve followed all the steps and the fonts seem to have installed because I can see the correct font when I load a document in OpenOffice, but when I try to select the font in a dropdown list none of the installed fonts are there.

Also, for some reason now Iceweasel crashes whenever I try to load Google. Nothing else has changed, so I’m wondering if updating the fonts has somehow caused this problem?

Thanks for any advice

By: Rashed

Rashed — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:11:55 +0000

In Ubuntu I made a new folder .fonts and paste the solaymanlipi font over there and it worked.

By: lavluda

lavluda — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:50:48 +0000

hi devo.

i think you made mistake in line
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ttf”

please don’t copy this line, type it , because of my theme it will place wrong quote.

please let me if you still getting problem.

thanks

By: Devo

Devo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:45:53 +0000

Hello!

This was a very useful tutorial, but too bad it didn’t work for me.

I did everything as it said and got no errors, but after I restarted my system,
It set itself to low-graphics mode, which scared me a little, but I fixed that now.
I Still can’t see the fonts that I should have installed using this method.
Maybe I need a space between “Font” and “Path”?
Could anyone help me out?
Thanks!

- Devo

By: Aamod

Aamod — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:14:00 +0000

Thanks, great article. It works as I wanted for me.. All *.ttf now available on my Debian GNU/Linux……..

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:07:18 +0000

thanks george , that is easy, but you cann’t create new font dir with that process.

thanks marty, i fixed it.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:33:42 +0000

Nice instructions.
I’m running Ubuntu 6.10 and apt couldn’t find “mkfontdir”. But I just skipped it and everything else worked fine.

By: George Harkin

George Harkin — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:54:06 +0000

What about this method?

http://penguinfonts.com/howto/ubuntu.php

It seems quite a bit easier.