How to install DEC Terminal font?

[joeshmoe]

Hi All:

I would like to install a font called "Terminal font" in Mint. In OpenSuse it is called DEC Terminal font. I have searched for everything I could find, but nothing was found. Can anyone explain how to do this, or what package is needed to provide this font? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

[xenopeek]

Searching for dec-terminal font I find this RPM: http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/opensuse/ ... oarch.html. You can download it and right-click it and select to open it with your archive manager. You'll find font-dec-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 inside that. It has two .bdf fonts. No clue what you can do with a .bdf font, so this might not be what you are looking for. You can of course just copy the font files from openSUSE (like boot from a live session?).

[joeshmoe]

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Re: How to install DEC Terminal font?

Postby xenopeek on Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:17 pm
Searching for dec-terminal font I find this RPM: http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/opensuse/ ... oarch.html. You can download it and right-click it and select to open it with your archive manager. You'll find font-dec-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 inside that. It has two .bdf fonts. No clue what you can do with a .bdf font, so this might not be what you are looking for. You can of course just copy the font files from openSUSE (like boot from a live session?).

In regard to "You can of course just copy the font files from openSUSE", what files would I copy, and where would I put them?

Thanks in advance.

[xenopeek]

I already answered that above? As I wrote, download the file, open with archive manager, open the font-dec-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 inside it, extract the two .bdf fonts. Where you should place them I don't know, I'm not familiar with such fonts and don't have any on my machine. Doing an "apt-file search bdf" turns up the repository has mostly Emacs related packages holding .bdf fonts.

Perhaps I have the wrong RPM package Probably still easiest is just to copy the font files you want from OpenSUSE, just from the live session.