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dufeu
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 Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:08 am Post subject: How to find which fonts are installed/available? [SOLVED] |
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Yes, I know the question sounds kind of pointless. But it's not. Really.
I wanted to list all of the available font packages and know which ones I already have installed.
I can get a partial listing containing the type of information I want by doing something like:
There results look something like: | Code: | * media-fonts/texcm-ttf
Latest version available: 1.0
Latest version installed: 1.0
Size of files: 73 kB
Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/
Description: TeX's Computer Modern Fonts for MathML
License: bakoma
* media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
Latest version available: 1.10-r3
Latest version installed: 1.10-r3
Size of files: 258 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
Description: Bitstream Vera font family
License: BitstreamVera
* media-fonts/vdrsymbols-ttf
Latest version available: 20080905
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 625 kB
Homepage: http://andreas.vdr-developer.org/fonts/
Description: Font that contains symbols needed for VDR
License: BitstreamVera |
I get the package name, short description, latest available and installed versions and homepage which is exactly the kind of info I want to see together in one place.
If I look at the media-fonts category in the on-line database, that lists all the available fonts but doesn't tell me what I already have installed. If I use a font display program or simply open OOo writer and check the fonts there, that tells me what's installed but not what's available in portage.
What I really wanted to do was: | Code: | | # emerge -s media-fonts |
and list all the font packages under /usr/portage/media-fonts in the above format. But neither the '-s' or '-S' options include the package category as part of what is compared during searches.
Is there any simple way of doing this?
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Etal
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wthrowe
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:21 am Post subject: |
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If you prefix your search string with an @ then emerge will include the category:
| Code: | | emerge -s @media-fonts |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:03 am Post subject: |
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Kinda related: to see the fonts available:
fc-match -a | uniq | sort | less |
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dufeu
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Both: | Code: | | # emerge -s @media-fonts |
and | Code: | | # eix media-fonts/* |
are perfect for what I wanted to know.
Even better, I can now do things like {on laptop}: | Code: | | # eix media-fonts/* > fonts-laptop.text |
{on desktop}: | Code: | # eix media-fonts/* > fonts-desktop.text
# scp root@192.168.1.5:/root/fonts-laptop.text .
# diff -u fonts-desktop.text fonts-laptop.text |
So now, not only can I see what fonts are installed/not installed on a given machine, but I can also find out which fonts are discrepant between machines! This example uses the "emerge" method: | Code: | * media-fonts/terminus-font
Latest version available: 4.30
- Latest version installed: 4.30
+ Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 281 kB
Homepage: http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/
Description: A clean fixed font for the console and X11
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* media-fonts/texcm-ttf
Latest version available: 1.0
- Latest version installed: 1.0
+ Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 73 kB
Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/
Description: TeX's Computer Modern Fonts for MathML
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* media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
Latest version available: 1.10-r3
- Latest version installed: 1.10-r3
+ Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 258 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
Description: Bitstream Vera font family
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I love it! Thanks to both wthrowe and AM088 for the good answers. 
The "fc-match -a | uniq | sort | less" method is interesting. While it doesn't really suit my immediate need, I find the informational value interesting to say the least. It's certainly a different view on fonts than I'm used to seeing. Thank you, Paul.
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