In this tutorial we will learn how to install Ubuntu font family for individual user in CentOS/Red Hat. In our last post we have already described about how to install Ubuntu font family system wide.
To Add/Install Ubuntu font family for an individual users in CentOS and Red Hat
Step A: Create a .fonts directory in User’s home directory. For eg. here username is sharad
Login to desired user account for which you want to install Ubuntu Fonts
mkdir ~/.fonts
Below is the reference of my system
[sharad@CentOS-Server ~]$ whoami
sharad
[sharad@CentOS-Server ~]$ mkdir .fonts
[sharad@CentOS-Server ~]$
Step B: Download the Ubuntu Fonts.
wget https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/0cef8205-ubuntu-font-family-0.83.zip
Below given is the reference of my system
[sharad@CentOS-Server ~]$ wget https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/0cef8205-ubuntu-font-family-0.83.zip
--2024-11-21 06:12:53-- https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/0cef8205-ubuntu-font-famil y-0.83.zip
Resolving assets.ubuntu.com (assets.ubuntu.com)... 185.125.190.21, 185.125.190.2 9, 185.125.190.20, ...
Connecting to assets.ubuntu.com (assets.ubuntu.com)|185.125.190.21|:443... conne cted.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200
Length: 2190387 (2.1M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘0cef8205-ubuntu-font-family-0.83.zip’
0cef8205-ubuntu-fon 100%[===================>] 2.09M 2.03MB/s in 1.0s
[sharad@CentOS-Server ~]$
Step C: unzip downloaded ubuntu-font-family-0.80.zip file
unzip 0cef8205-ubuntu-font-family-0.83.zip
Below given is the reference of my system
Step D : Now copy the ubuntu-family-0.83 directory into ~/.fonts
cp -prvf ubuntu-font-family-0.83 .fonts
Below given is reference of my system
Step E: Now run fc-cache command to build the information cache. This is the last step and font installation is completed
fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts/
