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Angelina Carlton
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 59
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 Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:00 am Post subject:
How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?
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Hi everyone,
I would like to install the first font on this page:
http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download
My system is Debian Sid, xorg, with defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf
installed.
I created a folder 'proggy' in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
and unzipped the files there, then ran the command mkfontdir
[orchid@morcheeba:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/proggy]% ll
total 100K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 822 2006-07-18 18:00 fonts.cache-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2006-07-18 17:58 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 45K 2005-03-18 11:59 ProggyCleanCE.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 41K 2005-03-17 18:47 ProggyClean.ttf
[orchid@morcheeba:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/proggy]% file ProggyClean*
ProggyCleanCE.ttf: TrueType font data
ProggyClean.ttf: TrueType font data
I then ran: sudo xset fp rehash
but the fonts do not show up in xlsfonts, not even after restarting the
x server. Is the a proper way to add non packaged fonts to a Debian
system?
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H.S.
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 21 Aug 2005
Posts: 179
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:40 am Post subject:
Re: How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?
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Angelina Carlton wrote:
| Quote: | Hi everyone,
I would like to install the first font on this page:
http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download
My system is Debian Sid, xorg, with defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf
installed.
I created a folder 'proggy' in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
and unzipped the files there, then ran the command mkfontdir
[orchid@morcheeba:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/proggy]% ll
total 100K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 822 2006-07-18 18:00 fonts.cache-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2006-07-18 17:58 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 45K 2005-03-18 11:59 ProggyCleanCE.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 41K 2005-03-17 18:47 ProggyClean.ttf
[orchid@morcheeba:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/proggy]% file ProggyClean*
ProggyCleanCE.ttf: TrueType font data
ProggyClean.ttf: TrueType font data
I then ran: sudo xset fp rehash
but the fonts do not show up in xlsfonts, not even after restarting the
x server. Is the a proper way to add non packaged fonts to a Debian
system?
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IIRC, I tried this and it seemed to have worked for ttf fonts for my user:
1. Copy the ttf font file to a .fonts directory in your home
directory.
2. Give the command fc-cache -fv in a terminal. Once this command is
finished, restart your application, e.g. Firefox, and you should be able
to see the newly installed font.
You don't have to be root for the above to work.
If you want system wide fonts, you need to copy the ttf fonts in
/usr/loca/share/fonts directory, then give the 'mkfontdir' command
within that dir as root, and then give the 'fc-cache -fv' command as root.
I did this a while back so don't recall what other stuff I needed to do.
I hope the above will work, if not please let me know and I will try to
dig out more info.
->HS
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Angelina Carlton
*nix forums addict
Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 59
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?
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"H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> writes:
| Quote: | IIRC, I tried this and it seemed to have worked for ttf fonts for my user:
1. Copy the ttf font file to a .fonts directory in your home
directory.
2. Give the command fc-cache -fv in a terminal. Once this command
is finished, restart your application, e.g. Firefox, and you should be
able to see the newly installed font.
You don't have to be root for the above to work.
If you want system wide fonts, you need to copy the ttf fonts in
/usr/loca/share/fonts directory, then give the 'mkfontdir' command
within that dir as root, and then give the 'fc-cache -fv' command as
root.
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I created a directory in /usr/local/share/fonts called proggy, did a
mkfontdir and issued fc-cache -fv as root, so the font will be
systemwide.
It spat out alot of output including:
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy": caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
So it appears it added the fonts? But xlsfonts still wont find them, I
even added: FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy" to my xorg.conf
but to no avail.
| Quote: | I did this a while back so don't recall what other stuff I needed to
do. I hope the above will work, if not please let me know and I will
try to dig out more info.
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Thanks, I appreciate any help getting this to work!
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-----Angelina Carlton-----
orchid on irc.freenode.net
brat@magma.ca
web:bzgirl.bakadigital.com
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Eduard Bloch
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
Posts: 134
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?
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#include <hallo.h>
* Angelina Carlton [Thu, Jul 20 2006, 02:25:05PM]:
| Quote: | "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> writes:
IIRC, I tried this and it seemed to have worked for ttf fonts for my user:
1. Copy the ttf font file to a .fonts directory in your home
directory.
2. Give the command fc-cache -fv in a terminal. Once this command
is finished, restart your application, e.g. Firefox, and you should be
able to see the newly installed font.
You don't have to be root for the above to work.
If you want system wide fonts, you need to copy the ttf fonts in
/usr/loca/share/fonts directory, then give the 'mkfontdir' command
within that dir as root, and then give the 'fc-cache -fv' command as
root.
I created a directory in /usr/local/share/fonts called proggy, did a
mkfontdir and issued fc-cache -fv as root, so the font will be
systemwide.
It spat out alot of output including:
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy": caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
So it appears it added the fonts? But xlsfonts still wont find them, I
even added: FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy" to my xorg.conf
but to no avail.
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xlsfonts uses the old X11 font system. And mkfontdir creates index files
needed for it but only for the old pcf fonts. You want to use mkttfdir
instead, from the fttools package.
Eduard.
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H.S.
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 21 Aug 2005
Posts: 179
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?
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Angelina Carlton wrote:
| Quote: | "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> writes:
IIRC, I tried this and it seemed to have worked for ttf fonts for my user:
1. Copy the ttf font file to a .fonts directory in your home
directory.
2. Give the command fc-cache -fv in a terminal. Once this command
is finished, restart your application, e.g. Firefox, and you should be
able to see the newly installed font.
You don't have to be root for the above to work.
If you want system wide fonts, you need to copy the ttf fonts in
/usr/loca/share/fonts directory, then give the 'mkfontdir' command
within that dir as root, and then give the 'fc-cache -fv' command as
root.
I created a directory in /usr/local/share/fonts called proggy, did a
mkfontdir and issued fc-cache -fv as root, so the font will be
systemwide.
It spat out alot of output including:
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy": caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
So it appears it added the fonts? But xlsfonts still wont find them, I
even added: FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy" to my xorg.conf
but to no avail.
I did this a while back so don't recall what other stuff I needed to
do. I hope the above will work, if not please let me know and I will
try to dig out more info.
Thanks, I appreciate any help getting this to work!
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I tried that same things on my machine as well. xlsfont does not list
the fonts I have in /usr/local/share/fonts or in $HOME/.fonts. But
applications can see those fonts (e.g. Firefox). How about you, does
Firefox see those fonts?
BTW, I do not have /usr/local/share/fonts in xorg.conf file. I am not
very sure about the method of installing the fonts, but I will look
further if this doesn't work.
->HS
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H.S.
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Joined: 21 Aug 2005
Posts: 179
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?
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Angelina Carlton wrote:
| Quote: | "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> writes:
IIRC, I tried this and it seemed to have worked for ttf fonts for my user:
1. Copy the ttf font file to a .fonts directory in your home
directory.
2. Give the command fc-cache -fv in a terminal. Once this command
is finished, restart your application, e.g. Firefox, and you should be
able to see the newly installed font.
You don't have to be root for the above to work.
If you want system wide fonts, you need to copy the ttf fonts in
/usr/loca/share/fonts directory, then give the 'mkfontdir' command
within that dir as root, and then give the 'fc-cache -fv' command as
root.
I created a directory in /usr/local/share/fonts called proggy, did a
mkfontdir and issued fc-cache -fv as root, so the font will be
systemwide.
It spat out alot of output including:
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy": caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
So it appears it added the fonts? But xlsfonts still wont find them, I
even added: FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/proggy" to my xorg.conf
but to no avail.
I did this a while back so don't recall what other stuff I needed to
do. I hope the above will work, if not please let me know and I will
try to dig out more info.
Thanks, I appreciate any help getting this to work!
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Please have a look at the fonts installations part of this also:
http://www.svenkrahn.de/linux/my_debian/ar01s04.html
->HS
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Angelina Carlton
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 59
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?
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Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
| Quote: | #include <hallo.h
xlsfonts uses the old X11 font system. And mkfontdir creates index files
needed for it but only for the old pcf fonts. You want to use mkttfdir
instead, from the fttools package.
Eduard.
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Hi, I have installed the package fttools and removed the directories in
/usr/share/fonts and /usr/local/share/fonts and now am simply working
from a ~/.fonts to keep things from getting confusing.
I downloaded two other fonts from the same site to make sure it wasnt a
problem specific to that font.
[orchid@morcheeba:~/.fonts]% l
total 240
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 1072 2005-12-12 23:56 Licence.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 65996 2004-12-30 16:39 PixelCarnageMono.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 6924 2006-07-20 16:19
PixelCarnageMono.ttf.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 45232 2005-03-18 11:59 ProggyCleanCE.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 41208 2005-03-17 18:47 ProggyClean.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 15325 2006-07-18 17:49 ProggyClean.ttf.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 34396 2005-12-13 00:09 ProggySmall.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 6490 2006-07-20 16:19 proggysmall.ttf.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 orchid orchid 290 2005-03-18 20:01 Readme.txt
I then did mkttfdir -ejwo .fonts
and then sudo fc-cache -fv
fc-cache created ~/.fonts/fonts.cache-1
and outputted fc-cache: "/home/orchid/.fonts": caching, 4 fonts, 0 dirs
which seems right as I have 4 fonts now.
the fonts.cache-1 file itself contains four entries similar to:
"PixelCarnageMono.ttf" 0"PixelCarnageMonoTT:style=Regular:slant=0:weight=80:wid
th=100:spacing=100:foundry=unknown:index=0:outline=True:scalable=True:charset= |
| Quote: | ^(||>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!P0oWQ:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|f
j|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma| |
smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu:fontversion=65536:fontformat=TrueType"
But xlsfonts still show no fonts from my ~/.fonts folder.
I am trying to use the fonts in urxvt and in emacs if that matters. What
is frustrating is that on the previous Sid install, I had installed
these fonts wihout a problem and forgotten to document how I did it 
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brat@magma.ca
web:bzgirl.bakadigital.com
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