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.) Download a Nerd Font
2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts
3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv
to manually rebuild the font cache
had to move the font in /usr/share/fonts
Another variant, which installs fonts passed on args (allows to install new fonts without modifying the script) and download directly the latest version:
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
fonts_dir="$HOME/.local/share/fonts"
if [[ ! -d "$fonts_dir" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$fonts_dir"
fi
for font in "$@"; do
zip_file="$font.zip"
download_url="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest/download/$zip_file"
echo "Downloading $download_url"
wget -O "/tmp/$zip_file" "$download_url"
unzip "/tmp/$zip_file" -d "/tmp/$font/"
mv /tmp/$font/*.ttf $fonts_dir
rm "/tmp/$zip_file"
rm "/tmp/$font/" -rf
done
fc-cache -fv
Check out Nerd Font Downloader (nfdl): https://github.com/rubiin/nfdl
It requires node(js) to run.
It presents a (fuzzy searchable) list of Nerd Fonts which you can choose from to download.
It tries to put the font in the right place for user fonts (per operating system).
On Linux and macOS it will even try to run fc-cache for you, after downloading.
I made a small, but useful to me, change to @donovan code. I added code to look up the latest version of nerd fonts and download those.
#!/bin/bash
declare -a fonts=(
BitstreamVeraSansMono
CascadiaCode
CodeNewRoman
DroidSansMono
FiraCode
FiraMono
Go-Mono
Hack
Hermit
JetBrainsMono
Meslo
Noto
Overpass
ProggyClean
RobotoMono
SourceCodePro
SpaceMono
Ubuntu
UbuntuMono
)
version=$(curl -s 'https://api.github.com/repos/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest' | jq -r '.name')
fonts_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"
if [[ ! -d "$fonts_dir" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$fonts_dir"
fi
for font in "${fonts[@]}"; do
zip_file="${font}.zip"
download_url="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/${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