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Ubuntu released 11.10 earlier this month, and immediately I got it installed on my laptop. But I always feel bad about the default font, so I find out one automatical way to install Microsoft YaHei on Ubuntu. Sounds good, isn’t it? But if you feel so terrible about Microsoft that you don’t even want to touch anything from M$, you can just ignore this article.

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In fact this method is designed for Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04, but according to my test, it works well on 11.10, so just go ahead.

Install:

wget -O get-fonts.sh.zip http://files.cnblogs.com/DengYangjun/get-fonts.sh.zip
unzip -o get-fonts.sh.zip 1>/dev/null
chmod a+x get-fonts.sh
./get-fonts.sh

Remove the install shell and downloaded fonts:

rm get-fonts.sh get-fonts.sh.zip 2>/dev/null

Restore default font settings:

cd /etc/fonts/conf.avail
sudo mv 51-local.conf.old 51-local.conf 2>/dev/null
sudo mv 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf.old 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf 2>/dev/null
sudo rm -f -r /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts 2>/dev/null

Please notice that I’m using zh-cn locale, so I’m not sure which file you should change if you’re using en as locale. And I think YaHei works well for Chinese and Japanese, but I’m not sure for other languages, please try it yourself:)

Cited from Ubuntu Home, and the link of the article is here.