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by Torgo 2715 days ago
How do you make these work in Ubuntu? Tried copying them to /usr/local/share/fonts and running "fc-cache -f -v" it seems to detect them but lxterminal, fontviewer were still unable to find and use them...
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BackwardSpy 2715 days ago
Ubuntu has bitmap fonts disabled by default.

You can enable them as follows:

  cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/
  sudo rm -rf 70-no-bitmaps.conf && sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
The Ubuntu wiki[1] has information about how you can be more specific and only enable a selection of fonts, if you desire.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Enabling_Bitmapped_Fonts

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