[SOLVED] Installing fonts to slackware64?

TheNutCase · 12-23-2017, 04:10 PM

How do I go about installing fonts for Slackware 14.2 (64-bit)?

bassmadrigal · 12-23-2017, 04:32 PM

https://www.google.com/search?q=install+fonts+slackware

First result is https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ge...:install_fonts

Do you have questions beyond what is covered in the SlackDocs?

TheNutCase · 12-23-2017, 06:00 PM

Yes - It would help if step 2 were explained in layman's terms.

glorsplitz · 12-23-2017, 06:33 PM

man mkfontdir
mkfontdir - create an index of X font files in a directory

man mkfontscale
mkfontscale - create an index of scalable font files for X

man fc-cache
fc-cache - build font information cache files
-f Force re-generation of apparently up-to-date cache files, overriding the timestamp checking.
-v Display status information while busy.

montagdude · 12-23-2017, 06:59 PM

It you are using KDE, I think you can just double click on the .ttf file, and it will install it for you locally.

bassmadrigal · 12-23-2017, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheNutCase

Yes - It would help if step 2 were explained in layman's terms.

Here's the text from the wiki page...

Quote:

1. Copy your font files (.ttf and/or .otf) to their respective directories:

Code:

/usr/share/fonts/TTF
/usr/share/fonts/OTF

2. Run the following commands, with the directory where you copied the fonts as argument:

Code:

mkfontdir
mkfontscale
fc-cache -f -v

3. Restart X.

So, it's telling you in step one to place your ttf fonts into /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, and your otf fonts into /usr/share/fonts/OTF/.

Step two is telling you to run those commands against the directories you added files to. So, if you only added ttf fonts, you'd run:

Code:

mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/TTF

And if you added otf fonts, you'd do the same but against that directory.

Once those commands have been run against all directories containing new fonts, run

Code:

fc-cache -f -v

I'll update the wiki to better explain this.

====================================

A quick suggestion, if you had come across that page before posting and was confused by those directions, it's best to explain that in your post. Otherwise it seems like you didn't even bother to do a simple google search for the answer and leads to worse answers. If you had posted that you didn't understand step #2 in your first post, then my first response would've been like the above rather than pointing you to google results.

Gordie · 12-23-2017, 09:13 PM

Hmm. All I did was move the new fonts to /usr/share/fonts , deposit them in the appropriate subdirectories and run the applicable scripts from pkgtool

TheNutCase · 12-23-2017, 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

Here's the text from the wiki page...

So, it's telling you in step one to place your ttf fonts into /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, and your otf fonts into /usr/share/fonts/OTF/.

Step two is telling you to run those commands against the directories you added files to. So, if you only added ttf fonts, you'd run:

Code:

mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/TTF

And if you added otf fonts, you'd do the same but against that directory.

Once those commands have been run against all directories containing new fonts, run

Code:

fc-cache -f -v

I'll update the wiki to better explain this.

====================================

A quick suggestion, if you had come across that page before posting and was confused by those directions, it's best to explain that in your post. Otherwise it seems like you didn't even bother to do a simple google search for the answer and leads to worse answers. If you had posted that you didn't understand step #2 in your first post, then my first response would've been like the above rather than pointing you to google results.

Actually, I didn't see that page before, so Thank you for the explanation.

dugan · 12-24-2017, 10:34 AM

I just move the font files (.ttfs, .otfs, whatever) to ~/.local/share/fonts, and then run "fc-cache -f -v" as root.

There's really no reason to bother with mkfontdir and mkfontscale.

Gordie · 12-24-2017, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

I just move the font files (.ttfs, .otfs, whatever) to ~/.local/share/fonts, and then run "fc-cache -f -v" as root.

There's really no reason to bother with mkfontdir and mkfontscale.

I like that. Now it is my new way to do font business