Tamil Font Installation

Tamil Font Installation on Debian

Download and copy Tamil fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype, open a console and do the following

sudo apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf libft-perl

sudo defoma-hints -c --no-question truetype /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/* > /etc/defoma/hints/localfonts.hints

sudo defoma-font register-all /etc/defoma/hints/localfonts.hints

sudo defoma-reconfigure

Logout and restart X (ctrl+alt+backspace)

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