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Linux 字体安装外一篇

之前提到过我在Linux安装字体的方法，就是在~里建个文件夹，然后跑到/usr/share/fonts里建一个链接，最后执行三个命令，其中最后一个是fc-cache

不过今天给同学弄，一开始没弄好，fc-cache似乎不大管用（mkfontdir和mkfontscale都正常工作）,然后用 -v 选项发现它根本没有扫描我在/usr/share/fonts里面建的链接。不过仔细阅读发现它会扫描~/.fonts,于是把/usr/share/fonts里新建的链接删掉，然后把~里的字体文件夹改为.fonts，再运行一次fc-cache就ok了.

想反观我的安装过程，却发现首先fc-cache就有问题。manpage是正常的，可是fc-cache不管怎么运行都是直接退出，-v选项不管用。想看版本，-V不管用，然后用fc-cache --help发现可以用--version,但是显示程序名为'true',而且/usr/bin/fc-cache是个指向/bin/true的链接。最后man一看，竟然是'true - do nothing, successfully'. 一开始认为是package没装好，用aptitude重装不管用。而且fontconfig这个package的其他命令如fc-list可以使用。最后没办法了，直接打fc-然后tab匹配，发现个fc-cache.distrib，一运行，竟然是fc-cache,估计这个是重名问题，只是不知道true是干什么用的。

这样说来当时我运行的fc-cache很可能就是这个true -- 什么都不工作，竟然还能装上字体，很神奇。

我在我的机器上运行fc-cache.distrib -v发现它确实会扫描我在/usr/share/fonts/里建的链接（也会扫描~/.fonts)。但同学的不会。后来看一下版本，我的是2.3.2，他的是2.4.2，估计跟版本有关。不过他的fc-cache没有manpage,所以具体原因就不得而知了。

总之，装好了也就行了。
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