How to install Bangla font in Ubuntu 16.04?

Question

I'm trying to install Bangla font in Ubuntu but I'm struggling. I have downloaded SolaimanLipi_20-04-07.ttf font & saved it on my Desktop. I'm trying to copy the file to the right location but it's not working:

$ sudo cp -r /home/Desktop/SolaimanLipi_20-04-07.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype
cp: cannot stat '/home/Desktop/SolaimanLipi_20-04-07.ttf': No such file or directory

Also tried to copy but I got this error:

opening file '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/SolaimanLipi_20-04-07.ttf': Permission denied

How can I fix this?

Solution 1

The first thing you should try is to install the fonts-beng package from the Ubuntu archive:

sudo apt install fonts-beng

That package installs the Lohit Bengali font.

Solution 2

/home/Desktop/ is not a correct (default) directory. It should be /home/$USER/Desktop/.

The 2nd problem is due to not using sudo or not using a session started with sudo -i. Your "normal" user account isn't allowed to write to the directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype, so you need root permissions to copy the file.

Solution 3

Manual installation process

1. Download all Bangla font from https://github.com/bulbul5391/all_bangla_font

2. Now go to /usr/local/share/fonts directory and create the "sample" folder

   sudo mkdir sample
   sudo chmod -R 777 sample
   

3. After that copy all bangla fonts not folder and past in sample folder

4. Then close browser and open browser

Solution 4

I've put commonly used fonts in a git repo. If you have git installed, issue the below command:

git clone https://github.com/hmoazzem/bangla-fonts.git; mkdir $HOME/.fonts/; cp -r bangla-fonts $HOME/.fonts/; fc-cache -f -v

This should install the fonts.

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Comments

[Anwar]

just use cp ~/Desktop/SolaimanLipi_20-04-07.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/.

[Ashif]

where do I use sudo -i ? Is it instead of sudo cp -r ?

[Henning Kockerbeck]

sudo (switch user and do) executes one command as another user. If you don't specify the user, root is assumed. So, sudo cp -r something /to/somewhere means "switch to 'root' and execute 'cp -r something /to/somwhere'". With sudo -i (no command added) you can open a new interactive shell session for the other user, in this case "root".

[Anwar]

OP wanted to install a specific font

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@Anwar: Well, he asked how to install a Bangla font, and let us know what he had tried. I assumed that he wasn't aware of the fact that a Bangla font is easily available in the archive, and my assumption seems to have been correct. ;)

[Anwar]

Ubuntu used to include bengali by default. I haven't used ubuntu iso to install, instead used kubuntu and it has the bengali font. However, it seems Ubuntu dropped them in default

[Anwar]

Noto font is available in ubuntu repository and OP can just install fonts-noto package

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@Anwar: I don't see it in Kubuntu's list of default fonts either, but it's included in the Bangla language support. Anyway, this explains why we interpreted the question differently.

[Anwar]

It's Noto Font Bengali. I checked the ISO. Also previously Ubuntu used to include Bangla font. I believe ttf-indic-core-fonts package from trusty does the job

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@Anwar: Hmm.. ttf-indic-core-fonts is replaced with fonts-indic nowadays, and yes, it's not shipped by Ubuntu. Maybe that was a mistake...

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@Anwar: In Ubuntu 17.10 fonts-indic is installed by default.