Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
Questions tagged [fonts]
2138 questions
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How do I install fonts?
How do I install fonts on Ubuntu Linux? I need them to be available in gimp.
myusuf3
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How can I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer?
After a recent update, ttf-mscorefonts-installer prompted me to accept its license agreement.
┌─────────────────┤ Configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer ├─────────────────┐
│ …
Peter
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How can I make my shell prompt look like a cheeseburger?
I want my shell prompt to look like a cheeseburger!
It would be nice if it also displayed: username, hostname, and current directory.
Corey Goldberg
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How to install many font files quickly and easily?
I need to install more than 100 fonts, so I was wondering if there is an easy way to do this task?
I know you can opening every single one and pressing install font, but installing more then 100 fonts this way will be very time-consuming.
In my…
Levan
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How do I change fonts and adjust their size?
I've been finding fonts on the internet and installing them on my system.
What's the easiest way to change my fonts? I would prefer an easy to use graphical way, but answers with command line recommendations are also welcome.
Jorge Castro
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How to change the default font size of XTerm?
XTerm font is very small. How can I set it larger?
Sudo
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How to install OTF fonts?
I know how to install TrueType fonts (by copying them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and doing sudo fc-cache -f) but what about OTF formats?
I didn't find a suitable folder to copy them to.
Behzadsh
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"Failure to download extra data files" after installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer
After fresh install 12.04 I && updating apt and system restart, I always get this annoying message after reboot :
Failure to download extra data files
The following packages requested additional data downloads after
package installation, but the…
armanke13
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How do I change the font or the font size in the TTY (console)?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Recently, the font size for all of my TTYs became much larger.
How can I change the font size back to the default?
Aaron Hill
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How do I fix fonts not rendering and missing letters?
I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.10 on my laptop. It appears that letters are missing from files and folders, as well as menus and configuration windows. I'm not sure where to start in order to fix this.
Gunther
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How to use the Adobe Source Code Pro font?
Adobe released an open source font family called "Source Code Pro" (download here, Slashdot article here). How do I install it?
January
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Failure to download extra data files - ttf-mscorefonts-installer
This is an old problem that deserves a bugfix, but it's getting beyond a joke now and I can't seem to work around it.
I keep getting the dreaded failed To download extra data files error in relation to ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
Repeatedly asking…
Julie Brandon
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How can I determine which fonts are installed from the command line, and what is the easiest way to install more?
There are many questions and answers regarding fonts on Ubuntu, but not so many dealing with Ubuntu for Embedded Linux, such as Beaglebone Black.
I have not been able to locate any .ttf files in standard locations on my system, and I think that…
user391339
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"Failure to download extra data files" with ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 16.04
I have been receiving notifications about "failure to download extra data files" from update notifier. It asked me to download fonts in request from the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. However, whenever I click on the "run this action now", a…
Xiaodong Qi
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How to install Arial font (and other Windows fonts) in ubuntu?
How to install Arial font in Ubuntu?
I found many ways to install fonts in Ubuntu but I didn't find any proper way or method to install (particularly) Arial fonts in Ubuntu.
Yuvaraj V
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