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Linux下安装TTF字体

While searching the ways of installing true type fonts to linux, I get all sort of solutions. Some will ask you to copy and paste to fonts:/// folders in nautilus, or fonts:/ in konqueror. Some may even ask you to copy your ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts and run fc-cache. All sort of ways doesn’t works so well during last two years.

Nowadays, I think all sort of ways may works under particular linux distro, the steps to install font might vary between different linux distros, but its they a common way that it will works for any distro? For me, installing custom fonts should be as straight forward as ‘copy and paste’ ttf files to a specific folders without needing to run any command or configuration script.

Recently, I find the ‘copy and paste’ way. I just need to copy my downloaded ttf font files to ~/.fonts. If your home directory does not contain .fonts folder, create a new one

For examples, I download a font from a site, it consist of multiple ttf files.

I create a new folder “SF New Republic” in ~/.fonts , and copy all these files into that folder. Next I open oowriter ( open office writer), straight away I can use the font without doing fc-cache or any configurations.

Anyway, there is a command to verify fonts have successfully installed to your system:

New Republic:style=Regular

fc-list is actually listing all the installed fonts, with pipe over grep, we can verified whether are those fonts successfully installed.

I have tested this method on:
1. Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
2. Fedora 8

I would like to do a survey at here, if you are running different distro listed above, can you try out this method?

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