[nflug] Install fonts Fedora 9

K O wpos2 at roadrunner.com
Thu Jun 26 13:06:36 EDT 2008


My biggest obstacle was figuring out what the relative directory was, so 
I created one.  Copied the fonts I wanted installed and ran mkfontscale 
and mkfontdir within that directory.  It works!  It seems that I was 
googling the wrong thing.

Thanks again!

Cyber Source pisze:
> dont know about f9 persay but copy the fonts into the relative directory 
> under /usr/share/fonts then run mkfontscale and then mkfontdir. They 
> should then be available system wide.
> 
> K O wrote:
>> Greetings members of the List.
>>
>> How the hell do you install fonts in Fedora 9?  I'm not necessarily 
>> looking to install the MS core fonts, but to install an individual TTF 
>> (or Type 1, or whatever compatible format of font) on demand.
>> - There's no button "go to fonts directory" in the lower center of the 
>> font rendering control panel.
>> - The fonts protocol does not work under Nautilus.
>>
>> TIA for anyone who can shed light on this.
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