Does Ubuntu provide extra fonts through a font package?

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Is there a font-package the Ubuntu ships out that has more fonts?

score 16 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 05 '16 at 03:00

Yes.

In a terminal...

apt-cache search font

will yield all results. Or...

apt-cache search font | grep ttf

will yield a list of TrueType fonts. You could save the output to a file to examine it:

apt-cache search font | grep ttf > ttf_font_packages

If you wanted 465 free TTF fonts in the ttf-aenigma package and the tuffy font after reading the output, then:

sudo apt-get install ttf-aenigma fonts-tuffy

Aside from packages, you can create a directory for your own fonts.

cd
mkdir .fonts

Then, drop as many fonts as you like into that directory (~/.fonts). You've also got some graphical software selection tools available if you do not like the terminal.

Rodrigo Oliveira · Answer 2 · 2012-12-31T01:26:39.593

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Yes, you can have Windows TrueType fonts through Ubuntu Restricted Extras (Package that installs beyond fonts, flash, java and audio and video codecs) and TrueType Microsoft fonts Installer, to get them type the following in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras ttf-mscorefonts-installer

edited Dec 31 '12 at 01:26

answered Dec 31 '12 at 01:13

Rodrigo Oliveira

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ubuntu-restricted-extras will pull in much more stuff than just fonts. – gertvdijk Dec 31 '12 at 01:22
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Although anything there will harm his system and he will get his fonts... although it's always good to him to know about it. – Rodrigo Oliveira Dec 31 '12 at 01:25

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 25 '16 at 20:24

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Perhaps a bit extreme, is this attempt to install all fonts:

sudo apt-cache search ^fonts- | sed 's/^\(fonts-[^ ]*\).*$/\1/' | xargs sudo apt-get install

answered Dec 25 '16 at 20:24

Lonnie Best

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can make it a bit shorter with awk, apt-cache search -n '^fonts-*' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo apt-get install (this is probably like what I ended up doing, and also thinking it was a bit extreme) – Evan Carroll Jun 14 '18 at 21:58
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BTW, Houston LInux Users Group ever Wednesday 6-9PM @ cPanel and then Cedar Creek @ 9pm – Evan Carroll Jun 14 '18 at 22:00
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Cool, I'd like to check that out. I see the cPanel one, but not Cedar Creek address. – Lonnie Best Jun 16 '18 at 13:15
We hit up Cedar Creek when we leave cPanel every wednesday. =) Not sure we advertise it, you're in the in-crowd now. – Evan Carroll Jun 16 '18 at 23:59
I see. Ha! Alright. – Lonnie Best Jun 18 '18 at 01:25

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 27 '14 at 13:28

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I think the best option is to use the Synaptic or any other package manager and the section fonts from (universe) for example.

answered Dec 27 '14 at 13:28

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