%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy: dj $ $Date: 2006-04-15 23:04:51 -0500 (Sat, 15 Apr 2006) $ Xorg Fonts Xorg Fonts The Xorg font packages provide needed fonts to the Xorg applications. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: Download size: &x7fonts-size; Estimated disk space required: &x7fonts-buildsize; Estimated build time: &x7fonts-time; Required and Downloading Xorg Fonts To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands: wget http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/x/wget/font.wget && mkdir font && cd font && wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/ -i ../font.wget Installation of Xorg Fonts Run the following commands for each package: You should install encodings first, and then font-util before all other font packages. ./configure $XORG_CONFIG && make Now as the root user: make install When all of the fonts have been installed, the system must be configured so that Fontconfig can find the TrueType fonts since they are outside of the default search path of /usr/share/fonts. Make symlinks to the Xorg TrueType font directories by running the following commands as the root user: install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts && ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF && ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF