Friday, March 5, 2010

How to install Mac fonts on Ubuntu

Some beautiful fonts from the mac world is available at http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com .You can install them to your ubuntu and enjoy the new fonts.

Download the fonts in a terminal .

$ wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/macfonts.tar.gz
( I am not sure the download is strictly legal)
Extract the font files:

$ tar zxvf macfonts.tar.gz

Move the extracted fonts directory to the system fonts directory

$ sudo mv macfonts /usr/share/fonts

Reload the font cache:

$ sudo fc-cache -f -v

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