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Monday, May 4, 2009

How to install TTF fonts in ubuntu 9.04


# Download the font from http://www.dafont.com
cp *.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts
cd /usr/local/share/fonts
sudo chown root:root *.ttf
sudo fc-cache

# if the application that needs to use the font (like gimp ) is open it needs to be restarted