Installing Fonts on Debian

carlosinfl · 08-01-2007, 07:34 PM

I am looking for a simple way to add nice new fonts to my Lenny / Testing system. I really did do a search and found a guide from 2000 which I did not feel sufficient using. Anyone have any ideas on what I should do? I downloaded a tarball of fonts and now have a lot of them but I am not sure where to put them or install them. I would assume there is a simple directory that houses fonts for the entire system so any one can use them but I can't find it...

Here is what I did have have so far...

Code:

cwilliams@tunafish:~/Desktop$ ls
gnome-terminal.desktop  msttcorefonts.tar.gz  ralusdebug.tar.gz
cwilliams@tunafish:~/Desktop$ tar xzf msttcorefonts.tar.gz 
cwilliams@tunafish:~/Desktop$ cd msttcorefonts/
cwilliams@tunafish:~/Desktop/msttcorefonts$ ls
Andale_Mono.ttf              Georgia.ttf
andalemo.ttf                 georgiaz.ttf
arialbd.ttf                  impact.ttf
arialbi.ttf                  Impact.ttf
Arial_Black.ttf              timesbd.ttf
Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf        timesbi.ttf
Arial_Bold.ttf               timesi.ttf
Arial_Italic.ttf             Times_New_Roman_Bold_Italic.ttf
ariali.ttf                   Times_New_Roman_Bold.ttf
arial.ttf                    Times_New_Roman_Italic.ttf
Arial.ttf                    Times_New_Roman.ttf
ariblk.ttf                   times.ttf
comicbd.ttf                  trebucbd.ttf
Comic_Sans_MS_Bold.ttf       trebucbi.ttf
Comic_Sans_MS.ttf            Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf
comic.ttf                    Trebuchet_MS_Bold.ttf
courbd.ttf                   Trebuchet_MS_Italic.ttf
courbi.ttf                   Trebuchet_MS.ttf
Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf  trebucit.ttf
Courier_New_Bold.ttf         trebuc.ttf
Courier_New_Italic.ttf       Verdana_Bold_Italic.ttf
Courier_New.ttf              Verdana_Bold.ttf
couri.ttf                    verdanab.ttf
cour.ttf                     Verdana_Italic.ttf
eula.htm                     verdanai.ttf
Georgia_Bold_Italic.ttf      verdana.ttf
Georgia_Bold.ttf             Verdana.ttf
georgiab.ttf                 verdanaz.ttf
Georgia_Italic.ttf           webdings.ttf
georgiai.ttf                 Webdings.ttf
georgia.ttf

tiagoreul · 08-01-2007, 08:30 PM

Hi, Carlwill

You can't just drop .ttf fonts somewhere then they will work in linux,
you have to get a package

this links may help you:
http://penguinfonts.com/howto/debian.php
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/TT-Debian.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/

war1025 · 08-01-2007, 08:45 PM

apt-get install msttcorefonts

craigevil · 08-01-2007, 09:01 PM

You might also want to take a look at "Liberation Fonts."

Techy Stuff » Liberating Ubuntu...
http://techystuff.info/?p=62

Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/index.html

You could try this http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubunt...-ubuntu-linux/ and this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=343670. This might help with "smoothing" fonts.

Zaskar · 08-01-2007, 09:02 PM

I asked a question like this just a little while ago and got an answer that worked awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by HappyTux

You can install the linux-libertine, ttf-bitstream-vera and msttcorefonts if you want the MS fonts then reconfigure to use either of these as your main fonts you would need contrib in your line you get the packages from in your sources.list to get the MS fonts.

just use apt-get or Synaptic and pick them out

then reboot.

[edit] just tried the first link that showed a few second way to make those fonts smother too, very nice

carlosinfl · 08-02-2007, 08:38 AM

Which repo did you use to find them as I don't seem to have the correct "TESTING / LENNY" repo for some reason.

Norb · 08-02-2007, 09:14 AM

This should get you the msfonts, their in the contrib section. I just checked the packages on debian.org for testing

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

or download here

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/s...elease=contrib

Norb

Zaskar · 08-02-2007, 09:32 AM

wait, you can have repos setup like that without haveing to make a seperate one for "main" "contrib" and "non-free" by just having them like that, seperated by spaces? Awesome

deepclutch · 08-02-2007, 10:53 AM

if you want a guide for ttf font install:

Installing .ttf fonts in Debian/Ubuntu Linux locally

First i downloaded Manorama.ttf(india malayalam language daily) from
http://www.hackorama.com/malayalam/fonts/
then for present user,

$cd ~.fonts
$mkdir manorama
Copy Manorama.ttf font into this directory
then,

$ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
$ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
$mkfotnscale
$mkfontdir
$xset fp+ $HOME/.fonts/manorama/
$xset fp rehash
Now do an
$fc-cache -fv
Next step is to add the fontpath to our /etc/X11/xorg.conf last of font paths
like this:
> FontPath "/home/prakash/.fonts/manorama/"
Do a
> $fc-cache -fv

Now restart X and try watching in Firefox.
There are better ways to do this especially in redhat fedora..

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...?t=6029&page=2
^me only!

the Debian way/Defoma:

Debian-Installing Fonts using Defoma
In Debian, fonts can be managed by defoma, the Debian Font Manager. It
registers the Fonts to applications which tell defoma how to do this using a
plugin. Examples are gs, fontconfig and also x-ttcidfont-conf which in turn makes
the fonts available to X (see Tip 15). The advantage is that is sufficient to
register the fonts to defoma, which will take care of the rest of the configuration.
Here is a short walkthrough on how to do it:
First you copy all your TrueType fonts to a suitable directory, for example
/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype. Next you create a so called hints file for defoma
which contains informations about the fonts. You do this using the defoma-hints
program. Make sure that the libft-perl package is installed. After that you can
create the hints file:

Code:

defoma-hints -c --no-question truetype \
/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/* \
> /etc/defoma/hints/ownfonts.hints

Now you register this file to defoma:
defoma-font register-all /etc/defoma/hints/ownfonts.hints
The last thing you have to do is to apply the new configuration. The quickest
way is to call
defoma-reconfigure
It updates the fonts database for all registered applications. To use the new fonts
in your current X session, run

Code:

xset fp rehash
fc-cache -fv

carlosinfl · 08-02-2007, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaskar

I asked a question like this just a little while ago and got an answer that worked awesome

just use apt-get or Synaptic and pick them out

then reboot.

[edit] just tried the first link that showed a few second way to make those fonts smother too, very nice

Just followed these steps - once I reboot, should these fonts be available system wide or specifically on only Gnome applications? If I am not clear, can Iceweasel see these fonts?

pAn1k · 12-19-2007, 10:43 PM

You can just right click in konqueror and choose install.

o2cool · 05-06-2012, 05:33 PM

if memory serves me correctly, with slack all i do is drop the fonts in the dir or in there own dir inside of the font dir and run fc-cache and boom done. i'll try it real quick and see

o2cool · 05-06-2012, 05:41 PM

worked fine. with debian moved font to /usr/share/fonts/(your choice)/(your choice) and ran fc-cache. started gimp and the new font was there

NevemTeve · 06-13-2012, 08:24 AM

Sorry if I am late -- I have Debian 'lenny', and I'd like to run defoma-hints, but the only answer I get is 'defoma-hints Can't locate FreeType.pm in @INC'. Freetype.pm used to come from package libft-perl, which doesn't exist anymore. So what's now?