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bWF0a3Vr

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Registered: 2021-01-02

Posts: 15

Unable to manually install a font

I used  this approach to download the Nerd version of the Hack font (I have Hack (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) installed through pacman (ttf-hack)).

For some reason my fonts aren't getting updated, see below:
https://i.ibb.co/KXzB8Ff/img-2021-05-10-12-11-47.png

As you can see, the font listed in the 4th line doesn't appear. Any ideas why? I'm using wayland (sway) if that matters.

Mod Edit - Replaced oversized image with link.
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Edit: (Thanks for the mod edit ) just tried installing the fonts from the AUR. This worked fine. Could someone explain to me, why my manually added fonts arent being loaded into the cache, but when installing through pacman, they are?

Last edited by bWF0a3Vr (2021-05-10 10:38:38)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Unable to manually install a font

Did you run fc-cache after installing them manually? Packages will trigger a hook that runs fc-cache when /usr/share/font paths are populated.

bWF0a3Vr

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Registered: 2021-01-02

Posts: 15

Re: Unable to manually install a font

Good to know. Thank you.

Yes, I did. I tried two approaches:
1. Install into .local/share/fonts and ran fc-cache afterwards.
2. Install into usr/share/fonts and ran fc-cache afterwards. I know that this should be avoided, but I wanted to try it out.

Both approaches didn't work. Installing through pacman worked. As far as I'm concerned pacman basically did the same I did manually in the 2nd approach...