Installing Indian Rupee font in Fedora, Ubuntu & Debian Linux
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Now that the Indian rupee has got its official symbol, there is an itch to use it in our online communities, documents & under other applications. While it will take time for the rupee symbol to appear on our keyboards, we can begin to use it on your computer by simply installing the font. The font is developed by Foradian Technologies is free to download at their blog. Here are step by step instructions to use this font in Linux.
Under Fedora:
1) Download the font from Foradian Technologies blog.
2) Copy the font to /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType/ directory.
3) Issue the command “fc-cache”(without quotes) to use font under all applications.
4) To insert the font in your document, type grave ascent(`) key, the one above tab key. You should have the new rupee symbol in your document.
Under Ubuntu:
1) Download the font from Foradian Technologies blog.
2) Double click on the font file & click on “Install Font” button on bottom left of the font viewer.
3) To insert the font in your document, type grave ascent(`) key, the one above tab key. You should have the new rupee symbol in your document.
Under Debian:
1) Download the font from Foradian Technologies blog.
2) Open a terminal & enter the following commands with root privileges/root user,
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
cp Rupee_Foradian.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf
apt-get install ttmkfdir
cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf
ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
mkfontdir
cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf/
chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/ttf/Rupee_Foradian.ttf
3) To insert the font in your document, type grave ascent(`) key, the one above tab key. You should have the new rupee symbol in your document.
That’s it. Enjoy the new Indian Rupee font.










