How to install fonts in Ubuntu?

[smartboyathome]

Make sure fonts is lowercase, or it won't work.

[komputes]

I just discovered kfontview, amazing little piece of free software, allows you to preview the fonts and then decide whether you want them installed locally or system wide. You can get it through add/remove.

Edit: kfontview is now part of the kdebase-workspace-bin package and is no longer in the repositories as its own package.

[ogami]

nevermind

[Ghuloomo]

You can just copy your ttf fonts to your home/user/.fonts (if .fonts doesnt exist, creat it), then open ur gimp and u'll see the fonts. If not go to your gimp preferences , folders, and in the fonts section browse for that .fonts directory and add it.
restart gimp, have fun

[ekricyote]

Looks like fonts:/// feature in nautilus was removed in Hardy.

Back to the old terminal way I guess...

[ironhorse2008]

I got myanmar fonts in Ubuntu 8.04.

* Open your home folder in Nautilus (GNOME) or Konqueror (KDE).
* Since dot-folders are really hidden folders, you need to choose "Show Hidden Files" from the View menu.
* Go to File -> Create Folder (GNOME), or right-click and choose Create New -> Folder (KDE).
* Name the new folder " .fonts ".(be careful for dot before fonts)

Now double click on the folder to open it, and drag and drop your fonts into the folder. Restart computer again and then I got it.

[Nanish]

You don't need to restart, just update the font cache with
sudo fc-cache -f -v

[honkey]

Can I remove the system fonts or are there problems after i removed
Can I get the system fonts anywhere after?

[ktworks]

Do you guys have any short and easy method so that a new bie can also take help from it.I am also having these kind of problems ...

[mssever]

Can I remove the system fonts or are there problems after i removed
Can I get the system fonts anywhere after?

There are a number of font packages installed. Fire up Synaptic and search for them. You can probably safely remove most of them. Just pay attention to what else might be removed as a consequence.

Do you guys have any short and easy method so that a new bie can also take help from it.I am also having these kind of problems ...

1. Make a directory for your fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype:

   sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/my_fonts

2. Copy your fonts to that directory:

   sudo cp /your/fonts/here /usr/share/fonts/truetype/my_fonts

3. Run fc-cache:

   sudo fc-cache -fv

4. Your fonts probably won't show up in your application until you restart it.