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installing additional fonts on older suse linux systems

if your suse linux is older than 8.2, you can easily upgrade a few files to be able to use the same method for font installation and setup as in suse linux > = 8.2. just download

http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/misc/suseconfig.fonts/suseconfig.fonts
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/misc/suseconfig.fonts/fonts-config
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/misc/suseconfig.fonts/fonts-config.1.gz

copy the 3 files to the the right place with the right permissions and call fonts-config --force once. i.e. do the following as root:

     install -m 755 suseconfig.fonts /sbin/conf.d/suseconfig.fonts     install -m 755 fonts-config /usr/sbin/fonts-config     install -m 644 fonts-config.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/fonts-config.1.gz     /usr/sbin/fonts-config --force

i have tested that this works at least on suse linux 8.1. probably on older versions as well.

if you use fonts via xft on suse linux < = 8.1 and installed fonts to a new directory, you need to add your new directory to /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xftconfig:

         #         # xftconfig         #         # use with type1 and truetype fonts         #          dir "/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/type1"         dir "/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/truetype"         dir "/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/<new-directory>"  <--- add this line          [...]

then remove the cache file ~/.xftcache and restart your application using xft, for example kde.

2005-03-09

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installing additional fonts on older suse linux systems