So I may have lead you astray with my previous post about installing fonts in Ubuntu. I forgot that when I was working on my old computer I had previously installed kfontview to view and install my fonts. You can do it manually, and I will show you how to do that, but this is the easiest way. Thanks goes to Penguin Fonts for the info on how this works.

First you will need to install kfotnview, which is easy to do from a simple comand: apt-get install kcontrol If you’re not logged in as root though, this does present a problem, so I just sudo’d it to get that working. Here’s what my terminal looked like:

talia@Talia:~$ apt-get install kcontrol
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
talia@Talia:~$ sudo apt-get install kcontrol
Password:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdebase-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kicker libarts1c2a
libartsc0 libavahi-qt3-1 libkonq4 libopenexr2c2a libpcre3 libqt3-mt
libxcomposite1 menu-xdg
Suggested packages:
khelpcenter kicker-applets menu libqt3-mt-psql libqt3-mt-mysql
libqt3-mt-odbc
Recommended packages:
perl-suid akode
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kcontrol kdebase-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kicker
libarts1c2a libartsc0 libavahi-qt3-1 libkonq4 libopenexr2c2a libpcre3
libqt3-mt libxcomposite1 menu-xdg
0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 239 not upgraded.
Need to get 36.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 105MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(this bit goes on for AGES, so I’ve spared you the details)
talia@Talia:~$

Once all this is done you can get out of the terminal, and just download the font. If you’re like me, then this is all because of the Beginners Alphabet font. I have already emailed the font, and the spotted/ lined version to someone who asked me for it, and if you were after it as well, then give me a holler.

So, where was I? I download the font, and it should ask to open it in kfontview (don’t save it, just open it- though it doesn’t really matter if you save it…). You will most likely need to re-size the window in order to see the ‘install’ button in the bottom right hand corner. Choose system or personal (I like to do system, in case one day I have multiple users, but if there’s only you, then there’s not that much point… unless you’re logged in as root one time). You will need to use the root password to activate this most likely. Once you’ve done that though it is installed and ready to use!

Happy font using!

I’ve done a little cutting and pasting, and this is what PenguinFonts says about installing fonts in different ways:

By hand
If ~/.fonts does not exist, create it:
$ mkdir ~/.fonts
Copy the font, from the command line, run the following:
$ cp [fontfile] ~/.fonts
From the command line, run the following:
$ fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts
or alternatively, log out, and log back in.

Installing for system wide use
Make the following directory as root:
# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts
Copy the font(s) into the newly created directory:
# cp [fonts] /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts
Run the following:
# fc-cache -f -v

Installing Windows Fonts (eg. Times New Roman)
Make sure you have the “universe” repository added. If not, as root, modify your /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the deb line which will look something like this:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
Then update apt-get:
# apt-get update
Run the following as root:
# apt-get install msttcorefonts 

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)