installing fonts

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:24:20PM -0300, Renato Henriques wrote:
> I found a folder under etc which had the name "fonts" although no fonts
> were inside. When I tried to dump in the true type fonts I was told by
> the system that I had not enough priveleges.
> 
> How do I install fonts in Linux?
> 

That directory is used by the "fontconfig" package to store font 
configuration information.  All of True Type fonts I have installed 
(from Ubuntu packages) exist under /usr/share/fonts/truetype.

You normally need root privileges (sudo) to install system-wide files.