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NerdFonts⚓︎

Installing Nerd Fonts⚓︎

  • Visit the Nerd font website or GitHub Repo, to download a preferred font. My personal favorite is JetBrainsMono.
  • Unzip the downloaded zip file and move/copy the directory to ~/.local/share/fonts directory. You can use /usr/share/fonts instead to make the fonts available system wide. (Tested on Fedora and Debian)
  • Run fc-cache -vf to refresh the font cache.

Example⚓︎

Download

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$ curl -o /tmp/JetBrainsMono.zip -L https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.4.0/JetBrainsMono.zip
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100  123M  100  123M    0     0  3796k      0  0:00:33  0:00:33 --:--:-- 4716k
Unzip
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$ unzip /tmp/JetBrainsMono.zip -d ~/.local/share/fonts/
Archive:  /tmp/JetBrainsMono.zip
  inflating: /home/legion/.local/share/fonts/JetBrainsMonoNerdFont-Italic.ttf  
  inflating: /home/legion/.local/share/fonts/JetBrainsMonoNerdFontPropo-Italic.ttf  
  *** Output omitted ***
  inflating: /home/legion/.local/share/fonts/README.md
Refresh the font cache
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$ fc-cache -vf ~/.local/share/fonts/
Font directories:
        /home/user/.local/share/fonts
/home/user/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 96 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/lib/fontconfig/cache: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/user/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/user/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/usr/bin/fc-cache-64: succeeded
Verify
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$ fc-list : family style | grep -i nerd
JetBrainsMonoNL Nerd Font Propo,JetBrainsMonoNL NFP:style=Bold Italic
JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono,JetBrainsMono NFM,JetBrainsMono NFM ExtraBold:style=ExtraBold,Regular
JetBrainsMonoNL Nerd Font,JetBrainsMonoNL NF:style=Italic
*** Output Omitted ***
JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Propo,JetBrainsMono NFP,JetBrainsMono NFP ExtraBold:style=ExtraBold Italic,Italic
JetBrainsMonoNL Nerd Font Mono,JetBrainsMonoNL NFM,JetBrainsMonoNL NFM SemiBold:style=SemiBold Italic,Italic

Bash Script⚓︎

You can also use a script to automate it. I found this good script made by pedoc & fixed by pha5matis.

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#!/bin/bash

declare -a fonts=(
  BitstreamVeraSansMono
  CascadiaCode
  CodeNewRoman
  DroidSansMono
  FiraCode
  FiraMono
  Go-Mono
  Hack
  Hermit
  JetBrainsMono
  Meslo
  Noto
  Overpass
  ProggyClean
  RobotoMono
  SourceCodePro
  SpaceMono
  Ubuntu
  UbuntuMono
)

version=$(curl -s 'https://api.github.com/repos/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest' | jq -r '.name')
if [ -z "$version" ] || [ "$version" = "null" ]; then
  version="v3.2.1"
fi
echo "latest version: $version"

fonts_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"
#fonts_dir="/usr/share/fonts"

if [[ ! -d "$fonts_dir" ]]; then
  mkdir -p "$fonts_dir"
fi

for font in "${fonts[@]}"; do
  zip_file="${font}.zip"
  download_url="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/${version}/${zip_file}"
  echo "Downloading $download_url"
  wget "$download_url"
  unzip -o "$zip_file" -d "$fonts_dir"  # Added the -o option here to allow replacing
  rm "$zip_file"
done

find "$fonts_dir" -name 'Windows Compatible' -delete


fc-cache -fv
About Author⚓︎

Systems & Network Administrator (CCNA) whose been in IT since 2008. Has strong working knowledge of Linux for servers and networking & is passionate about everything computer and technology.