get font from ubuntu 11.10

Question

I have a installed Debian on my laptop (base system, x-window-system and i3-wm). Now I'd like to set up fonts from ubuntu 11.10 to my debian wheezy. How I can do it?

Answer 1

A safe and easy approach is to put the necessary font files under your home directory after which you rebuild the font cache.

• Go to http://font.ubuntu.com/ and choose "Download for free"
• unzip the downloaded file and move the folder to the directory ~/.fonts/ (create it if it doesn't exist with mkdir ~/.fonts)
• run the command fc-cache to rebuild the font cache

Answer 2

look up the packages in the apt-get repository and check if debian has the same package if so use that one otherwise download the deb file from ubuntu's repository and use gobi or dpkg -i <deb file> to install.

but be warned ubuntu is a mess and packages from one distribution are rarely recommended to be installed on another.

(i run debian [oldstable (lenny), stable (squeeze)])