Help Installing new fonts

Question

Ive looked over the wiki page regarding installing new fonts and am finding it a bit confusing. The wiki suggests creating a package and lists provides and example but I am still unsure how exactly to use it.
Lets say my font is downloaded to: ~/Desktop/font.ttf
What exactly would I edit in this code, and then what would i type to package it and then install it?
pkgname=ttf-fontname
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
depends=('fontconfig' 'xorg-font-utils')
pkgdesc="custom fonts"
arch=('any')
source=(http://someurl.org/$pkgname.tar.bz2)
install=$pkgname.install
package() {
install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir/$pkgname/"*.ttf "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
Last edited by life617 (2013-11-14 17:08:37)

Answer 1

It doesnt say that anywhere, so i was doing it wrong.
/home/imhotep: sudo chmod 777 fonts2
/home/imhotep/fonts2/: ls -la
Bronx.ttf
PKGBUILD
ttf-Bronx.install
PKGBUILD
pkgname=ttf-Bronx
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
depends=('fontconfig' 'xorg-font-utils')
pkgdesc="custom fonts"
arch=('any')
source=(Bronx.ttf)
install=$pkgname.install
package() {
install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir/$pkgname/"*.ttf "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
ttf-Bronx.Install
post_install() {
echo -n "Updating font cache... "
fc-cache -fs >/dev/null
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/Type1
mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/Type1
echo "done"
post_upgrade() {
post_install
post_remove() {
post_install
cd ~/fonts2
makepkg> Error: Integrity checks are missing.
makepkg -m >
=> Making package: ttf-Bronx 1.01-1 (Thu Nov 14 15:50:03 EST 2013)
=> Checking runtime dependencies
=> Retriving sources ...
   ->Found Bronx.ttf
=>ERROR: Integrity checks are missing.
makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD && makepkg
zsh: permssion denied: PKGBUILD
makepkg --skipinteg
=>Making package: ttf-Bronx 1.01 (Thur Nov 14 16:01:40 EST 2013)
=>Checking runtine dependices...
=>checking build time dependencies...
=>Retrieving sources...
   ->Found Bronx.ttf
=>Warning: Skipping all source file integrity checks.
=>Extracting  sources...
=>Removing esisintg pkg/ directory ...
=>Entering fakeroot environment...
=>Starting package()...
cp: cannot stat '/home/imhotep/fonts2/src/ttf-Bronx/*.ttf': no such file or directory
=> ERROR: A failure occured in package().
     ABORTING...
Last edited by life617 (2013-11-14 22:06:11)