Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

["Timothy Legg" <debianuser@timothylegg.com>]

I am embarrased to admit I spend way too much time at the console so it is
these stupid X windows problems that really trip me up.

I need to add a font and noticed that my gnome menu is acutally missing a
tool for managing fonts.  On my system in particular, it seems that fonts
are stored wherever different developers seemed fit for them to store them
at the time.  I have found multitudes of paths that contain TTF files,
some of these fonts seeming to be very similar, if not redundant.

I have a TTF file for a very obscure unicode font that I must have installed.

I did find one very old document from the Sarge/Woody days regarding how
to install TTF support, but I am concerned the document may be no longer
relevant.  It is likely that the ways fonts are handled in Debian, or
linux in general, have changed since then.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/TT-Debian.html

Would it suffice to just copy the TTF file into any directory that already
has a TTF file stored in it (there's about 20 of them on my machine) or
are there additional steps that need to be taken?

Thanks,

Tim Legg