Re: How to update fonts

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 04:13:14AM +0000, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> 
> > Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed?
> 
> That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away
> with a logout.

Yes; normally after installing new fonts (or modifying existing ones) you
just need to run "fc-cache" (normally with no arguments) as your user.
No need to even log out.

You can also put font files obtained from outside of Debian into
$HOME/.local/share/fonts/, e.g.

$ tree ~/.local/share/fonts
/home/andy/.local/share/fonts
├── CommitMono
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFont-BoldItalic.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFont-Bold.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFont-Italic.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontMono-BoldItalic.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontMono-Bold.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontMono-Italic.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontMono-Regular.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontPropo-BoldItalic.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontPropo-Bold.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontPropo-Italic.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFontPropo-Regular.otf
│   ├── CommitMonoNerdFont-Regular.otf
│   ├── LICENSE
│   └── README.md
└── install.sh

…but your example text (and most emojis) do render for me on Debian 12
using only the fonts packaged by Debian.

Thanks,
Andy

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