How do I install fonts in Fedora

Installing with

yum

A lot of fonts are available on fedora and rpmfusion repositories. You can search for available fonts using yum like this:

yum search fonts

Once you get to know the package name of the font you need to install,
you can have it installed using yum. For example, to install google droid fonts:

yum install -y google-droid-sans-fonts google-droid-sans-mono-fonts google-droid-serif-fonts
### or ###
yum install -y google-droid-*-fonts

Installing with

font viewer

You can preview and install font files using the

gnome-font-viewer

utility.
Once you installed it, double clicking font files will open it in this utility. This utility can be installed using:

yum install -y gnome-font-viewer

Remember, this utility will install fonts in the user's font directory (~/.fonts). This means that the font will be available only
for the user who installed it.

Manual installation

User specific installation

Login as the user for which you want to install the font. Then open the

.fonts

directory
- create one if it doesn't exists. Remember, it will be on your home directory and will be hidden by default. You can show or hide hidden directories in nautilus with

Ctrl+H

.
Copy the font files to this

.fonts

directory.
Now, open a terminal and type the following command to make the users’ accounts aware of thefonts.

fc-cache -v

System wide installation

The system wide fonts are installed in the directory

/usr/share/fonts

.
Create a directory there tohold your font collection, and copy the fonts to that newly created
directory. Then run

fc-cache -v

to make
the system aware of the newly installed fonts. You need root permission to make changes in

/usr/share/fonts

.
You can use

sudo

or

su
-

for that

### using sudo ###
sudo nautilus /usr/share/fonts
### this will open nautilus as root. create directory and copy fonts. then
sudo fc-cache -v

### using su - ###
su -
nautilus /usr/share/fonts
### this will open nautilus as root. create directory and copy fonts. then
fc-cache -v

fc-cache

scans the font directories on the
system and builds font information cache files for applications using

fontconfig

for
their font handling. To force the re-generation of apparently up-to-date cache files, overriding the timestamp checking,
you can issue the -f flag.

fc-cache -f -v

gotcha: With some applications like Scribus and The Gimp, the more fonts you add, the longer it will take for the applications to start up. So
if your collection is reaching into the thousands, expect those applications totake a moment to start.