
fonts folder in your home directory (if it doesn'tĮxist) and unpack/copy them there. I found the following answer, found above, very helpful: See this question as a help to determine the permission How can I get octal file permissions from command line?Ĭheck this answer to get help on setting permissions easily How to chmod all folders except files (recursively) So if you see don't see the fonts in listing, please check the permissions of those files and folders.

Fixing the font files' permission bitįont files should have the permission of 644 and the containing folder should have 755. Close any open application before you want to change the font for it. After 5-6 seconds, the fonts should appear in listing. When you put the fonts in that specified directory, Ubuntu will automatically start caching process. font directory directly under home anymore). In this case, the recommended way is to copy the fonts in ~/.local/share/fonts directory ( It is not recommended to create.

Let's say your downloaded fonts are in fonts directory in your Downloads folder, Do these to install them If you want the fonts to be usable by all users Copy in /usr/share/fonts with command line sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Īlternatively, Type this command in terminal to open graphical file manager if you prefer that way sudo -i nautilus /usr/share/fonts/truetypeĪnd copy the fonts from the downloaded directory to the newly opened folder in nautilus If you don't bother for all users
