Boston Linux & UNIX was originally founded in 1994 as part of The Boston Computer Society. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Building E51.

BLU Discuss list archive


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[Discuss] Installing a Font in Fedora 28



Thanks, Mike!

I added a .ttf file that is what I need.  Success!

Nancy

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:10 PM, Mike Lalumiere <mike at faifw.org> wrote:

> Hi Nancy,
>
> It looks like there are several packages that include Greek fonts
> available to install via dnf.
> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/s/greek%2520font
>
> Perhaps in a terminal run this to install some of those packages?
> sudo dnf install gdouros-aegean-fonts gfs-solomos-fonts gfs-jackson-fonts
>
> You can also use dnf to search the available packages:
> dnf search greek font
>
> -Mike
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 08:27:23PM -0400, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > I am new to Fedora (v. 28) and need to install a font. (I actually never
> > tried to add a font in Ubuntu, either, in the past.)
> >
> > I've looked at the Fedora Fonts directory, but I see a listing of icons
> > instead of font filenames. I don't know what kind of fonts Fedora uses.
> >
> > Once I know, would it be as simple as copying a new font into that
> > directory, in order to have the use of it? I need to use a Koine Greek
> > font. I searched for "Greek" and "Koine" in that font directory and found
> > nothing.
> >
> > Thanks for all suggestions.
> >
> > --Nancy
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss mailing list
> > Discuss at blu.org
> > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at blu.org
> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>



BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities.

Valid HTML 4.01! Valid CSS!



Boston Linux & Unix / webmaster@blu.org