fonts
Question says it all. I need them to be available in gimp.
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Many fonts are packaged for Ubuntu and available via the “Fonts” category of the Ubuntu Software Center. If you prefer apt-get, search for packages starting with otf- or ttf-.
Font files that are placed in the hidden .fonts directory of your home folder will automatically be available (but /etc/fonts/fonts.conf indicates it will be removed soon.). You can also place them in the ~/.local/share/fonts directory on newer versions of Ubuntu per the comments below.
You can also double-click on the font file (or select Open with Font Viewer in the right-click menu). Then click the Install Font button.
If you need the fonts to be available system-wide, you’ll need to copy them to /usr/local/share/fonts and reboot (or manually rebuild the font cache with fc-cache -f -v).
You can confirm they are installed correctly by running fc-list | grep "<name-of-font>"
You may need to restart some programs, like OpenOffice Writer, before they actually show the new fonts (usually such programs are caching the font list when they start up).
Edit: Changed advice to manually install into /usr/local/share/fonts instead of /usr/share/fonts to reflect comments and best practice.
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