Ubuntu – How to batch install fonts (Kubuntu 14.04)

I've found a solution for this problem. To do that you have to paste the fonts in the directory

~/.local/share/fonts

It's important to mention here that, normally, you can't see the folders which started with a dot(.)(in ubuntu folders started with . are hidden folders). To see these folders press ctrl+h or click view > show hidden files.

Now if you don't have a folder named fonts in ~/.local/share/, then create one and paste your desired fonts in that folder.

This solution worked for me; hope it can help others.

This is a one-liner in a terminal. Open a terminal with Ctr+Alt+T and run the commands below. Replace <your_font_zips> with the folder name, where you have placed your zip font files.

cd <your_font_zips>
# next command extracts all TTF and OTF files into your `.fonts` folder.
unzip "*.zip" "*.ttf" "*.otf" -d ${HOME}/.fonts
# next command rebuilds font cache
sudo fc-cache -f -v

If you want to remove the fonts again, then simply delete the TTF files in your .fonts folder and rebuild the font cache.

More about fonts and Ubuntu here.

And yes, you need all TTF files.

TTF and/or OTF

I quote:

OTF is more likely to be a “better” font, as it supports more advanced typesetting features (smallcaps, alternates, ligatures and so on actually inside the font rather than in fiddly separate expert set fonts). It can also contain either spline (TTF-style) or Bezier (PostScript Type 1-style) curves, so hopefully you're getting the shapes the font was originally designed in and not a potentially-poorer-quality conversion.

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