Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line

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Fontconfig will also look at your ~/.fonts directory: no sudo required.

I saw this option in other forums when I was putting together this post, but it didn't work well for me (personally). Restarted my machine a few times and still wouldn't show the custom font in some applications. Went the `sudo` route and it worked the first time. YMMV.

Some apps might not support live reload, but at least native Gtk and KDE apps should work well. I may have had to reload LibreOffice in the past, but I think that's resolved as well, though I haven't tried in a while.

You can also run fc-cache in ~/.fonts I think.

FTA: “Next we need to make sure we have full read and write privileges for this new folder”

What are the write privileges for? If the OS needs to write additional data, can’t that be done in a separate directory?

They are likely unnecessary, as long as read access is available.

Write access is needed for fc-cache update, but that's done as sudo as well.

That chmod -R makes the font files writable, too. Surely, that’s not needed?

Yeah, I was agreeing with you that the original article is likely wrong.

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