cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts
fc-cache -v -f
log out and back in again and voile! you can has a new font.
Help Installing Fonts
this was not as easy to figure out as i had hoped but i found a thread that explained how to install fonts in fedora that finally worked. most of them said to go to system > preferences > fonts but that menu item didn’t exist. so instead i just did this:
log out and back in again and voile! you can has a new font.
log out and back in again and voile! you can has a new font.
02/24/09
Most Unix systems these days has support for using ~/.fonts/ as a user-local font directory. Much easier, but not system-wide. It’s normally not required to update the font-cache either, so you wont have to logout before it taking effect.