I’ve been using the Unicode based Bengali fonts of Ekushey for a long time, specially SolaimanLipi which I use almost everywhere. To make these fine fonts easily available on Ubuntu, I’ve made a package of all of them called ttf-ekushey. Users of Ubuntu derivatives such as Linux Mint can use this package too.
Font list:
- SolaimanLipi
- Rupali
- Ekushey Lohit
- Ekushey Sharifa
- Ekushey Punarbhaba
- Ekushey Sumit
- Ekushey Durga
- Ekushey Saraswati
- Ekushey Puja
- Ekushey Azad
- Ekushey Godhuli
- Ekushey Mohua
(Twelve for now, but whenever they releases a new font I’ll update my package too.)
Installation:
To install this package, you can either download the binary file (MD5: a6cbc1dae63c1cf62c1ff4ef4ab73068) from our Launchpad PPA, or install it via apt-get or your graphical package manager. This method is recommended, as you’ll get notification when an update is available. Here’s how to do it via apt-get:
1. Open the apt sources.list file from the run command dialogue box (ALT+F2):
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list (Ubuntu)
kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list (Kubuntu)
gksudo mousepad /etc/apt/sources.list (Xubuntu)
2. Add the following line on the bottom of the file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-bd/ubuntu intrepid main
3. Open a shell window and type:
sudo apt-get update
4. When the update is completed, type:
sudo apt-get install ttf-ekushey
When you see the warning message “The following packages cannot be authenticated!”, press y to continue.
5. Done, now you can use the Ekushey fonts on your system!
I’ll try to get this package into the Ubuntu repository, and possibly into the Debian repository as well.
Hope this is helpful to you guys.
Please upload your fonts to Debian too, so that more distributions can use them.
Angel: Please poke me on IRC, I'll tell you how package it for Fedora. For now, take a look at the RPM Guide at http://tinyurl.com/2mochc
Good job, man. Looking for more packages from you.
Thanks for taking care of packaging these open fonts π
I'd like to invite you to join the Debian and Ubuntu fonts team:
http://pkg-fonts.alioth.deb…
https://launchpad.net/~fonts
I also like SolaimanLipi. I am using it in my Bangla blog http://maqtanim.blogspot.com. Waiting to see more from Ekushey!!
gr8 work bro, check out my blog when you have the time, don't forget~
thanks bro its very useful tutorial for beginners. i download this package in .deb extension and right click on it. and install in GUI. and try your way also. i know its install but still i can't understand how i write bangla.
I am facing problem while installing ekushey fonts on my ubuntu 8.10.
Messages at the terminal are as following:
Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net… 211.79.60.17
Connecting to nchc.dl.sourceforge.net|211.79.60.17|:80… failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.
andale32.exe: No such file or directory
All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up ttf-ekushey (0.1-1ubuntu1~intrepid1~ppa1) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
msttcorefonts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I will be very helpful for me if you kindly provide me with an early solution.