If you’re in the mood for a few new fonts to play around with, here’s how you go about adding them to your system.
First, you’ll have to make sure you have extra repositories added.
Then, open up a terminal session (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and type the following:
sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11 msttcorefonts
This will install Microsoft’s core fonts and Ghostscript fonts.
Want to install some from another region? Pick and choose from below.
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-arabic
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-asian
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-chinese
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-chinese-big
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-european
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-japanese
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-japanese-big
sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-phonetic
When you’ve installed everything you want, type the following:
sudo fc-cache -f -v
This will tell your machine to search it’s fonts directories and add everything to it’s font cache.
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December 19th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Nice guide, but the first line should read:
sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11 msttcorefonts
You forgot to add the final ‘s’.
December 19th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Kobewan,
You are indeed right. Fixed!
B
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:34 am
Unfortunately, msttcorefonts does not include the Tahoma font which Windows uses for the desktop. It’s a very nice font for that purpose. If you would like to use Tahoma with Ubuntu follow the excellent directions on this site:
http://www.warrenguy.com/docs/ubuntu-linux/configuring-fonts.html
December 17th, 2010 at 8:29 am
For Microsoft TrueType core fonts, install the msttcorefonts package from the “Multiverse” repository and for Ghostscript fonts, install the gsfonts-x11 package .
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