installing additional fonts

[Gérard BIGOT]

2009/8/20 komputes <komputes at gmail.com>

> Gérard BIGOT wrote:
> > 2009/8/19 Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>
> >
> >
> >> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 10:25:27 pm dwain wrote:
> >>
> >>> i have been reading the linux bible 2008 and have learned much about
> >>> running linux.  more than i have learned before.  i would like to
> install
> >>> some additional fonts, but i haven't found a way to do this in the
> gnome
> >>> desktop.  while trying to configure a network printer i found a tab to
> >>>
> >> add
> >>
> >>> additional fonts, but i would like to install them system wide.  would
> >>> someone please point me in the direction to accomplish this task?
> >>>
> >> In Kubuntu, which is what I use and much prefer, going to System
> Settings,
> >> Appearance, you will find the Font Installer and other font tools.  In
> >> Ubuntu
> >> however, people tell me this tool function is missing, ...a Gnome thing
> I
> >> guess.  You can however, install fonts from synaptic package manager if
> you
> >> find the ones you want available there. Or add "Font Forge" to handle
> true
> >> type fonts.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > put whatever font you want to add to ~/.fonts/ and reboot.  There's a
> magic
> > line to invoke at the prompt level, so as not have to reboot, but I can't
> > remember (fccache something?).
> >
> The command to update the font cache w/o rebooting is:
> $ sudo fc-cache -f
>

Thanks.

G.
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