Installing fonts

[Rafael Alexandre Schmitt]

Em Seg, 2005-12-05 às 13:58 +0000, Keith Powell escreveu:
> I have some fonts (mainly TTF) which I would like to install in Ubuntu 
> (Gnome), from a CD. As they are not in a repository, I can't use Synaptic.
> 
> What is the correct way to install them, please? I have tried putting 
> them in a "fonts" folder in my /home/keith directory, (which I thought 
> was the correct way), but  nothing will access them.
> 
> I am the only user.
> 
> I can't find anything about this in the forum or mailing list archives. 
> But that doesn't mean that it's not there!
> 
> Many thanks for any help.
> 
> Keith
> 

Hello ,

Create a .fonts directory in your home directory and copy all fonts into
this directory.
After that , go to this directory and run fc-cache.

Hope it helps.

-- 
Rafael Alexandre Schmitt <rafasch at uol.com.br>