===== fedora linux =====

Fonts are located in ''/usr/share/fonts''. Copy files there and logout/login to use them.

They can also be placed in ''~/.fonts''

For some applications to see the new fonts: ''fc-cache -f -v'' or update the font path in the application config.

===== microsoft fonts =====

==== core fonts ====
maybe install
  dnf list rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir

Newer (with calibri): http://mscorefonts2.sourceforge.net/

  wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm
  rpm -qpl msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm
  dnf install msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm


Get the fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net
  wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec

build
  rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec

check where they're produced and
  dnf install /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.noarch.rpm
 
==== wingdings ====

from https://github.com/IamDH4/ttf-wps-fonts
  git clone https://github.com/iamdh4/ttf-wps-fonts.git
  cd ttf-wps-fonts/
  cp *.ttf *.TTF ~/.local/share/fonts/
  


===== fonts for programming =====

Described on https://opensource.com/article/17/11/how-select-open-source-programming-font?utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=weekly&sc_cid=701f2000000tmCUAAY

==== Firacode ====

Edit 2019-06, a repo is available (not tested so far): https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/evana/fira-code-fonts/

site: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

  mkdir ~/.local/share/fonts 

  unzip  ~/Downloads/FiraCode_1.204.zip  ttf/*
  mv ttf/* ~/.local/share/fonts
  rmdir ttf

  unzip ~/Downloads/FiraCode-master.zip FiraCode-master/distr/ttf/*
  mv FiraCode-master/distr/ttf/* .local/share/fonts/
  /bin/rm -r FiraCode-master/



  fc-cache -f

=== source code pro/source code variable ===
site: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

Download the .otf in the ''~/.local/share/fonts/'' and run ''fc-cache -f''