how to add ttf font?

[goatflyer]

I am trying to add a .ttf file containing the canadian characters for languages like cree and inuktitut. The repositories dont have such a font, but I found a free one here:

http://www.languagegeek.com/

Gnome help says I can add a font by opening the font folder (opened in System>Preferences>Font) and copying my font file to it. This does not work.

Copy and paste does nothing (it doesn't copy the file and it gives no error feedback).

Thinking it might be permission related, i opened a terminal and did a sudo cp of the file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/mstcorefonts (where there are plenty other .ttf files). The file copies, and has the same permissions as all the other files, but still the font isn't recognized by Gnome (or OOo, or gedit)

So how does one install a .ttf file?

[QUASAR_FREAK]

you must copy the file to /usr/share/fonts and then rebuild your font cache with:
sudo fc-cache -f -v

[majesticturkey]

I was just looking over GNOME's roadmap, and making it easier to add fonts is on the ToDo. Just thought I'd throw that in there in case you were thinking "that's annoying." So do the devs

[goatflyer]

Thanks for your help, it worked like a charm!

[Kodiak3000]

Me too - ACE!

[notarikon]

For the record, you can also copy the fonts into your /home/username/.fonts/ folder (create it if it doesn't exist) and then rebuild the font cache with

sudo fc-cache -f -v

[Vorticon]

I'm trying to copy a whole folder with fonts into this directory but that doesnt work. I use this command:

sudo cp /home/username/Desktop/ttf-eigen /usr/share/fonts

but for some reason the folder gets skipped help!

[Vorticon]

Thanks to someone on the irc channel i found out how to install a whole folder

installing a folder of fonts:

sudo cp -a /path-to-folder /usr/share/fonts
sudo fc-cache -f -v

[Eglo]

i have with sudo cp -a /path-to-folder /usr/share/fonts add .ttf Font but i'll remove it.
how can i that?

Thanks

[Eglo]

?????