How to install an Open Type font?

[aelfinn]

I've been looking for information on how to install an Open Type font on Linux, to no avail, unfortunately. Can anyone help me out by pointing to some relevant information?

[Husse]

This tutorial for Jaunty should be valid for Gloria and Felicia

[aelfinn]

Thanks for trying, but that didn't work. The font still doesn't show up in OpenOffice's font list.

[DrHu]

Thanks for trying, but that didn't work. The font still doesn't show up in OpenOffice's font list.

I checked both the terminal, and synaptic (mint menu>package manager)

• apt search msttcorefonts
  i msttcorefonts - transitional dummy package
  synaptic search mssttcorefonts
  This package exists to facilitate upgrades to ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
  apt search ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  i ttf-mscorefonts-installer - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core font
  --so the link given by Husse, should have been OK, if you installed the ttf-mscorefonts-installer

I didn't create a .fonts folder in my /home/userID/.fonts (userID is the logged in user name)
--I just let the system put them inplace via the sudo prefix , and they go into the system location /usr/share/fonts

In the terminal
mint menu>Applications>Terminal

http://embraceubuntu.com/2005/09/09/ins ... oft-fonts/
http://www.krishnamoorthy.in/2009/07/in ... buntu.html
--remember to run sudo fc-cache -fv
-- sudo apt-get install ttf-liberation; same method for any other fonts you want installed, either synaptic or apt and know the font family names

Assuming you have the correct repositories available in Mint; installed by the default installation
--then msttfonts show under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts and for OpenOffice show under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice

• ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice
  total 116
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111620 2009-04-14 03:26 opens___.ttf

If you want to check their look, just use mint menu>Computer /usr/share/fonts/truetype; type that into the location bar, and you will get the list of fonts, then you can browse any type (family of fonts) installed, open one and see its style/look..

[linuxviolin]

To install a font in a system, see my post here. It's easy.