TrueType Fonts in Debian

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:03:52AM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I have an interesting problem - I am generally happy with the fonts I
> see, but I need to install a TrueType font on a Debian testing machine,
> and I can't seem to figure it out.
> 
> I put the TTF file in /usr/share/fonts/truetype, and I see it when I run
> this:
> 
> fslsfonts -server unix/:7101
> 
> but not when I run this:
> 
> xlsfonts
> 
> I was following this page, but it is old, and perhaps not appropriate:
> 
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian-3.html#ss3.2
> 
> Any tips would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Look at the docs for defoma (Debian Font Manager).  It has lots of utils
for managing adding and removing fonts from the system.

I guess looking at how the msttcorefonts package installs TTF files
would help too.

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