Update-fonts-dir

Update-fonts-dir

update-fonts-dir

X Window System font utility programs

Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force


Section: x11

Install update-fonts-dir

  • Debian apt-get install xfonts-utils Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install xfonts-utils Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install xfonts-utils Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install xfonts-utils Click to copy

xfonts-utils

X Window System font utility programs

xfonts-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.

To install the latest version of update-fonts-dir in your favorite operating system just copy the update-fonts-dir installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of update-fonts-dir 2026 package in your OS.