Mkfontscale Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian
Install mkfontscale
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Debian
apt-get install xfonts-utilsClick to copy -
Ubuntu
apt-get install xfonts-utilsClick to copy -
Arch Linux
pacman -S xorg-mkfontscaleClick to copy -
Kali Linux
apt-get install xfonts-utilsClick to copy -
CentOS
yum install xorg-mkfontscaleClick to copy -
Fedora
dnf install xorg-mkfontscaleClick to copy -
Raspbian
apt-get install xfonts-utilsClick to copy
xfonts-utils
X Window System font utility programsxfonts-utils provides a set of utility programs shipped with the X Window System that are needed for font management. The programs in this package include: - bdftopcf, which converts BDF fonts to PCF fonts; - bdftruncate and ucs2any, tools to generate fonts with various encodings from ISO 10646-encoded fonts - mkfontdir, a program to generate fonts.dir files; - mkfontscale, a program to generate fonts.scale files; - fonttosfnt, a program to wrap bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType) wrapper.
xorg-x11-font-utils-1
7.5-40.fc29.x86_64 : X.Org X11 font utilitiesxorg-mkfontscale
Create an index of scalable font files for X
Installation of latest mkfontscale command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian. You can copy the command for your OS from above and paste it into your terminal. Once you run the command it will download the 2026 latest package from the repository and install it in your computer/server.




