Installing external fonts

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When I upgraded to 13.2 somehow half of my wine disappeared. I removed everything so that I can do a fresh installation. The only reason I need wine is to run my MT4 platform. To install metattrader I am following these instructions http://articles.mql4.com/416 To add the fonts I need I followed 14.1 http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE_114/opensuse-reference/cha.fontconfig.html I used bash as super user to move them from my home directory to my fonts directory

 mv /home/warren/fontforge-20120731-b /usr/share/fonts

Is this all I need to do to add fonts to my Linux system?

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Basically yes.
You could also put them to ~/.fonts instead to not have to be root to install them, but this would only work for that particular user of course.

Btw, KDE does have a font installer included, see “Configure Desktop” (aka systemsettings)->"System Administration->“Font Management”.

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Thanks Wolfi

The reason I asked is because I was battling to believe that it was so easy to do.

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You could also open konqueror

type fonts://

…

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Max

I don’t really get much chance to work with the terminal therefore when the opportunity arises I try to complete the task with the terminal before using a GUI.