[Linux-disciples] Fonts and such

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Jason A. Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:48 -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> What distribution are you using?  Font configuration has become 
>> increasingly centralized and easy in recent upgrades.  Debian uses 
>> defoma which should automatically locate installed fonts and make them 
>> available to applications.  See 
>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/defoma.  Other distributions 
>> have their own ways of dealing with fonts.
> Configuring it was easy to do. I just didn't have the font available.
> Once I installed it, it was easy to go from there. I have been using
> synaptic package manager for doing my installs... any reason I shouldn't
> be?

You probably already have defoma installed, so it likely incorporated 
the MS fonts automatically.

synaptic is fine.  The graphical interfaces to the package management 
interface are generally "thin" front-ends--they just call out to 
apt-get or apt-get libraries with the package names and commands you 
request.

I personally find aptitude to be the most powerful and effective way 
to manage packages, but you might have no need of its more advanced 
functions, and it's not as click-and-point friendly as synaptic.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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