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
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