Install a nerd font on ubuntu

instructions.md

1.) Download a Nerd Font

2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts

3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

1 - just copy the bash script bellow and save with [yourname].sh

#/bin/bash
# install DroidSansMono Nerd Font --> u can choose another at: https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
echo "[-] Download fonts [-]"
echo "https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/DroidSansMono.zip"
wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/DroidSansMono.zip
unzip DroidSansMono.zip -d ~/.fonts
fc-cache -fv
echo "done!"

2 - Open a terminal and execute the scritpt with:

bash [yourname].sh

Thanks.

BTW, It is possible to use ~/.local/share/fonts instead of ~/.fonts.

Yes on newer versions of ubuntu according to: https://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

thx XD

You may want to exclude Windows related versions of the fonts.

Here is my Ansible task to give a hint:

---
- name: Update from git
  ansible.builtin.git:
    repo: "https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts.git"
    dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/src/ikon/nerd-fonts"
    depth: 1
    force: yes

- name: Select fonts to install
  ansible.builtin.find:
    recurse: yes
    use_regex: yes
    paths: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/src/ikon/nerd-fonts/patched-fonts"
    patterns:
      - '^.*?((?!Windows).)*?\.ttf$'
  register: fonts_to_install

#- debug: var=fonts_to_install

- ansible.builtin.copy:
    dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.local/share/fonts/{{ item.path | basename }}"
    src: "{{ item.path }}"
    remote_src: yes
  loop: "{{ fonts_to_install.files }}"
  notify:
    - update font cache

If you prefer not to checkout too many files from the repo, just use svn to download the folder you want. For example, I just needed Meslo L-DZ Regular, so I did the following:

svn co --depth=empty https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts.git/trunk nerd-fonts
cd nerd-fonts
svn up patched-fonts --depth=empty
svn up patched-fonts/Meslo --depth=empty
svn up patched-fonts/Meslo/L-DZ --depth=empty
svn up patched-fonts/Meslo/L-DZ/Regular --depth=empty
svn up patched-fonts/Meslo/L-DZ/Regular/complete --depth=files

Admittedly a bit repetitive, but depending on your internet connection you would have spent more time achieving the same results with git. You could also decide to write a script for this if you deem it necessary.

All you need to do to keep it up to date is (from the root of the repo):

svn up

I ended up using nerdfonts too:

font pango: MesloLGS NF Regular 10

I basically did this to install the fonts: https://gist.github.com/matthewjberger/7dd7e079f282f8138a9dc3b045ebefa0
Downloaded the fonts and placed them in ~/.fonts

On Debian:
/usr/local/share/fonts/ to install fonts system-wide
~/.local/share/fonts/ or ~/.fonts to install fonts just for the current user

So, this is what I did to install Meslo Nerd font on Raspberry Pi OS, for my user:

sudo apt install wget fontconfig \
&& wget -P ~/.local/share/fonts https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest/download/Meslo.zip \
&& cd ~/.local/share/fonts && unzip Meslo.zip && rm *Windows* && rm Meslo.zip && fc-cache -fv

Thanks

4.) List fira fonts with
fc-list | grep -i "fira"|awk -F: '{print $2}' |sort|uniq

good resource

1 - just copy the bash script bellow and save with [yourname].sh

#/bin/bash
# install DroidSansMono Nerd Font --> u can choose another at: https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
echo "[-] Download fonts [-]"
echo "https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/DroidSansMono.zip"
wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/DroidSansMono.zip
unzip DroidSansMono.zip -d ~/.fonts
fc-cache -fv
echo "done!"

2 - Open a terminal and execute the scritpt with:

bash [yourname].sh

This work for me, and select this font in my terminal :D Thank you very much :D

Just used this and is reusable with any link to the zip file for user level installation copy and paste :)

font_url='https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/FiraCode.zip'; font_name=${font_url##*/}; wget ${font_url} && unzip ${font_name} -d ~/.fonts && fc-cache -fv ;

thanks works like a champ

#!/bin/bash

declare -a fonts=(
    BitstreamVeraSansMono
    CodeNewRoman
    DroidSansMono
    FiraCode
    FiraMono
    Go-Mono
    Hack
    Hermit
    JetBrainsMono
    Meslo
    Noto
    Overpass
    ProggyClean
    RobotoMono
    SourceCodePro
    SpaceMono
    Ubuntu
    UbuntuMono
)

version='2.1.0'
fonts_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"

if [[ ! -d "$fonts_dir" ]]; then
    mkdir -p "$fonts_dir"
fi

for font in "${fonts[@]}"; do
    zip_file="${font}.zip"
    download_url="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v${version}/${zip_file}"
    echo "Downloading $download_url"
    wget "$download_url"
    unzip "$zip_file" -d "$fonts_dir"
    rm "$zip_file"
done

find "$fonts_dir" -name '*Windows Compatible*' -delete

fc-cache -fv

#!/bin/bash

declare -a fonts=(
    BitstreamVeraSansMono
    CodeNewRoman
    DroidSansMono
    FiraCode
    FiraMono
    Go-Mono
    Hack
    Hermit
    JetBrainsMono
    Meslo
    Noto
    Overpass
    ProggyClean
    RobotoMono
    SourceCodePro
    SpaceMono
    Ubuntu
    UbuntuMono
)

version='2.1.0'
fonts_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"

if [[ ! -d "$fonts_dir" ]]; then
    mkdir -p "$fonts_dir"
fi

for font in "${fonts[@]}"; do
    zip_file="${font}.zip"
    download_url="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v${version}/${zip_file}"
    echo "Downloading $download_url"
    wget "$download_url"
    unzip "$zip_file" -d "$fonts_dir"
    rm "$zip_file"
done

find "$fonts_dir" -name '*Windows Compatible*' -delete

fc-cache -fv

This script was the only thing that actually worked for me. Thank you.

Thanks!

@donovan awesome script, TY.

+1 to @donovan 's script, wonderful and easy to read

What is ~/.fonts? Directory?

@p6002 yep, it's a directory

works! thanks

thanks

Well, I'm a beginner in this art of creating scripts, so the script below is certainly not optimized or error-proof, I used a good part of @donovan's code, I just changed the use of wget to a git clone using the sparse option, guaranteeing the most current version of the font and the install described in the official documentation, it can also be changed to the powershell installation but as it is not my case at the moment, I did not use it. In fact, bandwidth consumption is higher because it downloads the repository (even if only partially), something that direct download does not, so there is a certain amount of "waste".

#!/bin/bash

declare -a fonts=(
    # BitstreamVeraSansMono
    # CodeNewRoman
    # DroidSansMono
    FiraCode
    # FiraMono
    # Go-Mono
    # Hack
    # Hermit
    JetBrainsMono
    # Meslo
    # Noto
    # Overpass
    # ProggyClean
    # RobotoMono
    # SourceCodePro
    # SpaceMono
    # Ubuntu
    # UbuntuMono
)

fonts_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"

if [[ ! -d "$fonts_dir" ]]; then
    mkdir -p "$fonts_dir"
fi

echo -e "\e[0;32mScript:\e[0m \e[0;34mClonning\e[0m \e[0;31mNerdFonts\e[0m \e[0;34mrepo (sparse)\e[0m"
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse git@github.com:ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
cd nerd-fonts

for font in "${fonts[@]}"; do
    echo -e "\e[0;32mScript:\e[0m \e[0;34mClonning font:\e[0m \e[0;31m${font}\e[0m"
    git sparse-checkout add "patched-fonts/${font}"
    echo -e "\e[0;32mScript:\e[0m \e[0;34mInstalling font:\e[0m \e[0;31m${font}\e[0m"
    ./install.sh "${font}"
done

echo -e "\e[0;32mScript:\e[0m \e[0;34mCleaning the mess...\e[0m"
cd ../
rm -rf nerd-fonts```

Still waiting for proper documentation how to install it

@p6002 for linux, open a text editor and paste the code from @donovan . Then you can save it as installFonts.sh. Your will then have to make it runnable from the properties context menu for the file. Then run it in a terminal with ./installFonts.sh

Thanks, but I have already made several approaches to these fonts, hours-long approaches.
There were always unfixable problems, errors, bad characters. Which was frustrating enough, since it's just a theme and should work with a single command.
For now I'm watching the project and waiting for someone to write proper documentation with steps on how to install this theme. Currently it's such a mess there that I think only the author can use it.

It took an embarrassingly long amount of time for me to realize nerd-fonts the Github repo already comes with an install.sh script.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts.git    # warning: takes a while

cd nerd-fonts/
./install.sh FiraCode

(or whatever other font you want -- or all of them if you just run ./install.sh by itself.

Thank you, @hiAndrewQuinn

@hiAndrewQuinn's example should probably be on the main README considering the amount of us that have ended up here.

I still waiting for proper documentation how to install and use it.
In the meantime, I started the rack, I learned how to use Docker, I run services through Docker Compose and several VMs without any problems. But I still can't install the fonts...