How to install fonts in Ubuntu?

[AJB2K3]

Well, I'm beginner.

But only want to report if you copy (as root) your TTF's to: /usr/share/fonts/truetype will be appear in GIMP & OpenOffice without refresh the cache in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1

Cheers.

If you copy them to the .fonts folder in your home directory it should also work without messing around.

[Osborn]

The easiest way to install fonts is to open your user folder (home).
Then press view and show hidden folders.
Now there will be alot folders named with a dot in the beginning.

Go to the folder .fonts
If you don't have the folder, just create it.
In this folder you can put your fonts. And when you are done, just close the window. Sometime it may require a restart before you start using the fonts.

[zippytex]

Thanks! Command line worked great and I don't even know what I am doing!!!

[Kinetic_lord]

I don't get it, why so complicated? I had to install KDE with Dolphin just to install some fonts on my computer. Once you select a font in dophin, on he right side of the screen a "install font" option appears. Well... smart people made it.

[smartboyathome]

I don't get it, why so complicated? I had to install KDE with Dolphin just to install some fonts on my computer. Once you select a font in dophin, on he right side of the screen a "install font" option appears. Well... smart people made it.

You don't need to do that, just copy your fonts to ~/.fonts. Nautilus was able to do this, but lost the feature when they switched to gvfs.

[SimonJohnes]

you can download fonts from a lot of websites (just google it) and then put the downloaded .ttf files into /usr/share/fonts/truetype
It so easy:

1: Open Applications / Accesories / Console
2: sudo cp Desktop/downld_fnts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype
3: Ready

This way is quite easy!

[rin67630]

I have a moral problem with this.
It's MY damn computer!!! If I want to F*ck it up, That's my right!!! I shouldn't have the OS telling me what I can and can't do with it!
Especially not as Root.
Is there any way to disable this "feature" so that I can just cut and paste files?

> gksudo nautilus

...is the magic formula to let you screw up YOUR damn computer ad libitum.

Enjoy!

RIN

[ax-ax]

I love that script

[alex.rayu]

I don't get it, why so complicated? I had to install KDE with Dolphin just to install some fonts on my computer. Once you select a font in dophin, on he right side of the screen a "install font" option appears. Well... smart people made it.

Yes, KDE does have lots of smart things that Gnome does not. I can't see how such smartness would make Gnome worse. Once again, it does seem to me more and more that Gnome is running out of steam. I wish I were a c++ programmer and could help. Which I most regretfully am not.

[uknowyalovmeh]

ok i have never used ubuntu before now and none of what your saying makes any sense to me. I dont know how to find those like apt source things or use the command lines or make scripts? Does anyone know or knows a guide that explains this step by step and in great detail? I feel like a complete retard.
im trying to install fonts so I can make the pretty images w/ GIMP that I did with windows