How to install fonts in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
We can install more fonts to use in your desktop or to give character to our texts.
To install the Microsoft Windows fonts have to open a terminal and from there run the following command.:
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Red Hat has its own sources that you can install with:
sudo apt-get install ttf-liberation
To install additional TrueType fonts must do the following. In your "home" directory, where you appear when you open a terminal you must create a directory called. "Fonts". Then you will copy the files. Ttf to that directory.
You can do this easily using Nautilus, but should let you show hidden files, ie having a front and points. "Fonts". To display hidden files, go to Places → Home Folder and in the window that is displayed press [CONTROL + H] or you're going to View → Show Hidden Files. In that window you create the new folder name. "Fonts" without the quotes.
In Windows fonts are stored in c: \ Windows \ Fonts
If we want is that these fonts are available for all computer users must copy the fonts to a different folder. This is /usr/share/fonts
to copy it must be root to which we will open Nautilus with:
sudo nautilus /usr/share/fonts
or from a terminal or by clicking anywhere on gnome [ALT + F2]
Once installed our new typefaces are available that can reboot or restart the cache preferably sources with the following command:
fc-cache -vf
This will become available for use.



















May 7th, 2009 at 16:32
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June 13th, 2009 at 2:04
Thanks for you input so you can leave my Ubuntu to the pint.
August 13th, 2009 at 6:31
Hello friend, I congratulate you on this website, I served a long and fonts work great, thanks
September 4th, 2009 at 20:48
Dear friend, please help I get to here:
when I run this command in the terminal
sudo nautilus / usr / share / fonts
I get the following message:
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: can not open usershare directory / var / lib / samba / usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
** (Nautilus: 4944): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not supported
and then nothing, I can not have the fonts in my ubuntu
Thanks in advance.
November 7th, 2009 at 16:08
Thank you, friend. Your instructions I have been very useful.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:34
Thank you very much, I'm new to ubuntu, and als sources sirviero me much. Gracais from Costa Rica.