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Installing Fonts in Linux

By admin on July 6th, 2008

Some Websites (Except English and Unicode Sites ) need separate font software for viewing information.If the website has font download option then download the “.ttf” font and just follow the steps
(You need root privileges for doing this)

1.Copy the (.ttf or .TTF fonts to fonts folder)

# cp /home/user/senthami.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/

2.Update the fonts database

# fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts

or

#fc-cache -f -v /usr/local/share/fonts/

[fc-cache scans the font directories on the system and builds font information cache files for applications using fontconfig for their font handling]
-f => force to update the font database
-v => verbose – viewing information while updating
(Source Linux Man Page)

3.Restart your Web Browser

No Responses to “Installing Fonts in Linux”

1. Raja says:

   March 31, 2009 at 8:55 pm

   Thank you sir, this post was very useful.

   Raja Sekharan
2. balaji says:

   May 29, 2010 at 8:41 pm

   Thank you. I have been looking for something like this.