f8 fonts install

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Wed Feb 13 18:26:40 UTC 2008


On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:20:38 +0100
François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:

> What is the philosophy to install new fonts in fedora 8? Where do I put
> them? What is this directory: /etc/X11/fontpath.d for? Shall I make a
> link to the directory where I have put my new fonts? Will chkfontpath do
> it?....

The best (neatest) way to install system-wide fonts is described here:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/rpm.html

Fonts local to one single user can be put into ~/.fonts

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