1 - Open the terminal and type below given command
cd /root
yum install wget (you can skip this step if wget is already installed)
wget https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/fad7939b-ubuntu-font-family-0.83.zip (check the newest version)
2 - Check if the directory /usr/share/fonts exist. If the fonts directory do not exist,you can create yourself.
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts
3 - Now unzip the downloaded Ubuntu fonts file
cd /root
yum install unzip (You can skip this step,if unzip is already installed)
unzip fad7939b-ubuntu-font-family-0.83.zip
4 - Now copy ubuntu-font-family-0.83 directory into /usr/share/fonts/
cp -rvf ubuntu-font-family-0.83 /usr/share/fonts/
Inside directory ubuntu-font-family,you can see many .ttf files
[root@CentOS-server ubuntu-font-family-0.83]#
[root@CentOS-server ubuntu-font-family-0.83]# ls -l
total 4120
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865 Sep 22 2011 CONTRIBUTING.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 155 Sep 26 2011 copyright.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10120 Sep 26 2011 FONTLOG.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 8980 Sep 26 2011 LICENCE-FAQ.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4673 Oct 8 2010 LICENCE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Sep 22 2011 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183 Sep 22 2011 TRADEMARKS.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 356980 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-BI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333616 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-B.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 350420 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-C.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409608 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-LI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 415552 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-L.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366992 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-MI.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 216208 Sep 26 2011 UbuntuMono-BI.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 191400 Sep 26 2011 UbuntuMono-B.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 210216 Sep 26 2011 UbuntuMono-RI.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 205748 Sep 26 2011 UbuntuMono-R.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 341324 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-M.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 386440 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-RI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 353824 Sep 22 2011 Ubuntu-R.ttf
[root@CentOS-server ubuntu-font-family-0.83]#
5 - Now run the fc-cache command. The fc-cache command build the information caches in directory.If you do not get any error then the fonts are successfully installed.
fc-cache -fv
You have more options with fc-cache command. for this run the command:
fc-cache --help
[root@CentOS-server ~]# fc-cache --help
usage: fc-cache [-frsvVh] [--force|--really-force] [--system-only] [--verbose] [--version] [--help] [dirs]
Build font information caches in [dirs]
(all directories in font configuration by default).
-f, --force scan directories with apparently valid caches
-r, --really-force erase all existing caches, then rescan
-s, --system-only scan system-wide directories only
-v, --verbose display status information while busy
-V, --version display font config version and exit
-h, --help display this help and exit