How to Install Fonts - Ubuntu 10.04

This video shows you how to install new fonts, very easy and quick. You can use these fonts in Gimp or OpenOffice.org, or where ever you'll need em'. Just search on Google for ''ttf fonts'' and there you go!

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[sneekylinux]

nice one ,dont stop.......geez

[UbuntuHelpGuy]

@sneekylinux Haha thanks!

[21StuB]

Very useful, I've been wondering how to do this! Thank you.

[UbuntuHelpGuy]

@21StuB Thanks! glad you could use it, mate.

[PC4LinuxFreak]

The easiest way to do it is either double clicking on the font and hit install or if you download several, to just go home folder/file system/usr/share/fonts/true types and drop the fonts there, assuming you have permissions to those folders. That's how I installed a 3000 font package, it would take for ever the other way... good video cheers!

[UbuntuHelpGuy]

@PC4LinuxFreak Thanks xD Yeah, but thats a good thing with Ubuntu and Linux! You can do one thing, in like 100 ways.. right? :)

[alexandr1us]

Dude you are very good guy, thanks for everything

[thehabbos007]

dafont (dot) com is good :D

[TheRealDoctorBonkus]

Er du dansker? :D

[chuahj]

gegbene meeejemedhjg Swait?

[Straaasse]

@tuzlanskiOdessit : 3:33mins - too much to watch carefully?

[Straaasse]

I can just quote PC4 Linux Freak: /usr/share/fonts/truetype is the preferred directory - why creating new one, if it is your own Computer there you got full sudo rights? I would just download them unpack them any way u like (GUI, CLI) and "sudo mv *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype" from whatever directory u downloaded into (cd into this directory first) ...obviously w/o the quotation marks

[tuzlanskiOdessit]

nice tutorial i got a problem though, i cant create a folder called ".fonts". well i can create it, but right after it just disappears. when i create a new one with the same title it says "there already is a folder with that name".... could you help me out please?

oh yeah, and when i open a .ttf file and click on install it doesnt work either.

[1234MSA1234]

thanks i subbed

[The114783]

excellent works for inkscape too and much more simple than the xplanation on the official help of inkscape

[SeltsamerAttraktor]

In KDE there's a GUI to do that in the system controls. Both system wide and only for the current user.

[spedknot]

oh fuck... lol