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Adding fonts on Linux without sudo

Friday October 10, 2008 at 7:45am

I am using a hosting service, which doesn’t allow me sudo access.  Yet I want to install additional fonts.

I don’t recall all the steps I did, but I got it working.  First, I installed fontconfig in under my home directory, such that:

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$ which fc-list
~/bin/fc-list

then when I want to install new fonts I copy the ttf file to the ~/.fonts directory like:

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$ scp Georgia.ttf user@myurl.com:~/.fonts/g.ttf
Georgia.ttf     100%  146KB  73.1KB/s   00:02

then in order to reset the font cache I run

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$ fc-cache -v ~/.fonts
fc-cache: "/home/me/.fonts": skipping, 6 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: succeeded

then when I run fc-list, I’ll see my new font in the list

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$ fc-list
Georgia:style=Regular

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