Sunday, January 6, 2008

slckware 12.0 - install Bitstream Vera Fonts

1. Download the font package from here.

Extract it

cd /tmp
tar xjf ~/Desktop/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10.tar.bz2


2. Copy the font to ~/.fonts

cp -r ttf-bitstream-vera-vera-1.10 ~/.fonts
fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts
xset fp rehash


Now it's ready to use! just open gvim and select the font.