Installing fonts

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 14:34 -0700 schrieb NoOp:
> On 07/07/2008 04:14 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Samstag, den 05.07.2008, 17:37 +0300 schrieb Rick:
> >> sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts and
> >> sudo fc-cache -f -v.
> > note that fc-cache -f -v is executed automatically by the postinst
> > scripts of all fontpackages in ubuntu, there is no need at all to
> > execute that manually at any time.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Is that also true for fonts that are installed via other methods (not
> using Ubuntu fontpackages)?
no, but the thread was only talking about packaged fonts yet :)
(or in case of msttcorefonts fonts that are wrapped in a package using
this default method (at least the ubuntu package of msttcorefonts from
multiverse does that, i cant speak for foreign repos and their self
rolled packages indeed ;) ))

ciao
	oli
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