Need help to move a front from fedora 10 to Arch

ftornell · 2008-12-19 11:30:28

Hi,
Have tried fedora 10 on another laptop of mine and i got stunned by a font there called qub. i think its a part of a package called mplus-font and its a bitmap fond size 6px.

There are no ttf fonts called qub.

+ mplus-qub (6 dots)
Minimum 6 dot size font.
-
mplus_q06r
mplus_q06r-euro *1

*1 Euro symbol (iso8859-15)

Have tried installed the mplus package but no qub font is displayed on fonts under appearance in gnome.

Any hints?

RobbeR49 · 2008-12-19 12:35:52

If you are sure of the Fedora package it's in you can extract it with pkgextract, then just put it in the .fonts folder in your home directory.

ftornell · 2008-12-19 12:48:44

RobbeR49 wrote:

If you are sure of the Fedora package it's in you can extract it with pkgextract, then just put it in the .fonts folder in your home directory.

Hi, thx for the reply.

Before i used arch i was using ubuntu and i tried to copy the whole font folder from fedora to ubuntu but that did'nt work either. Seems im out of luck!

FrozenFox · 2008-12-19 15:15:42

EDIT: Sorries, misread your message. I'm not sure why it wouldn't show up in gnome. Try installing this then run fc-cache maybe?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14017

This appears to be what you were looking for. I googled the fedora package name and it came up with a corresponding ubuntu package name, and eventually i looked for the same thing in AUR and found that. Going to the author's homepage listed on the arch pkgbuild, it points to "Qub" in the mfonts package and "6", so I imagine they're the same one. Just install them via yaourt or abs.

Last edited by FrozenFox (2008-12-19 15:18:06)

sm4tik · 2008-12-19 22:22:56

@ftornell
Just out of interest I looked up the font pack and here's a quick PKGBUILD for it. To use the fonts in non-xft apps, you need to add

"FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/mplus"

to your "Files" section in xorg.conf

PKGBUILD

pkgname=mplus-bitmap-fonts
pkgver=2.2.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="M+ bitmap fonts"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/"
license=('custom')
depends=('fontconfig' 'xorg-font-utils')
makedepends=('gzip')
source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.jp/mplus-fonts/5030/mplus_bitmap_fonts-2.2.4.tar.gz)

build() {
  cd ${srcdir}/mplus_bitmap_fonts-${pkgver}

  DESTDIR=${pkgdir}/usr/share/fonts/mplus \
  EURO15=YES MPLUSJ=NO MKBOLD=NO \
  ./install_mplus_fonts || return 1
}

md5sums=('a97a99acbee54976407dec828d03850c')

Oh btw, thank's for the hint. I like 'qub' quite alot!

Last edited by sm4tik (2008-12-19 22:27:46)

ftornell · 2008-12-20 09:44:34

Thx guys, will try it asap, ill get back and tell you how it went!

ftornell · 2008-12-20 20:49:37

Added it to the xorg.conf file but still doesnt appear in the fonts menu under appearance?

Hints?

sm4tik · 2008-12-21 00:18:11

You didn't tell which advice you followed? If you used the PKGBUILD I posted, and the fonts got installed into /usr/share/fonts/mplus maybe running

fc-cache -f

as root (or with sudo) helps?
Cheers

Arch Linux

#1 2008-12-19 11:30:28

Need help to move a front from fedora 10 to Arch

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Re: Need help to move a front from fedora 10 to Arch

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Re: Need help to move a front from fedora 10 to Arch

#4 2008-12-19 15:15:42

Re: Need help to move a front from fedora 10 to Arch

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#6 2008-12-20 09:44:34

Re: Need help to move a front from fedora 10 to Arch

#7 2008-12-20 20:49:37

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