Ubuntu with Liberation Fonts

I downloaded and tried out Red Hat's Liberation fonts. I found that they looked better with medium hinting. Will check them out a bit more, but there are some cases where I feel the Bitstream Vera seem clearer.

To install, I downloaded the liberation-fonts-ttf.tar.gz file. Made a directory in /usr/share/fonts/truetype called liberation (do it as root - use sudo). Extracted the liberation-fonts-ttf.tar.gz in this directory using

sudo gunzip liberation-fonts-ttf.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf liberation-fonts-ttf.tar

Make sure that the files are owned by root:

sudo chown root.root *.ttf

Then regenerate the font cache using

sudo fc-cache

Otherwise, you have to reboot. Eew, made me think of Windows for a moment.

Now you should be able to select either of the Liberation fonts (sans, serif, and monospace) in your system.

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