Thread: Guys, please help me out here... really upset - How to install font in Maemo 5?
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2011-06-28 , 21:19
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Originally Posted by jafferkhan View Post
the terminal way seems a bit easier though... any ideas?
Yes. My idea is: try the instructions kindly provided by michaaa62

Suggest changing the 'mv' to a 'cp' so you don't move any font files which happen to exist in MyDocs, but instead copy them.

So:
  1. Copy zekton.ttf font file onto the N900's internal memory (so it will appear in MyDocs)
  2. Open terminal, and type in the following one line at a time:
Code:
mkdir .fonts
cp MyDocs/*.ttf .fonts
fc-cache -f
Done.

Ask good (detailed) questions if you have trouble with any step of the process. For instance, you could ask: how do I get the font file into MyDocs to begin with in order to copy it to the newly created .fonts directory?

...or some other question. Start small, ask good questions, post screenshots where possible, stay patient (i.e. don't get "really upset!") and people will help you.



Edit: Thanks pillum for font cache rebuild
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Last edited by shallimus; 2011-06-29 at 15:02.