googlefontdirectory created in userspace, font availabilitiy uncertain

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Under Ubuntu 11.10 as root I ran the steps described for installing the google 
font directory.  I discovered that I have a large googlefontdirectory directory 
created in a user account but owned by root.  

It's not clear to me whether this means only that user can use the fonts (or 
only root?)  I'm not sure how to test if fonts are available.  Running fc-list 
does not list fonts with the names I see in googlefontdirectory.  And in any 
case, this is the *wrong* place for fonts.  They should presumably be in 
/usr/share/fonts.  

So the installation instructions need to be changed.  (And I'm not sure how to 
fix my installation---can I just copy googlefontdirectory/* into 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype?)  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by a...@cornell.edu on 11 Dec 2011 at 3:30

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I have no idea why you ran the steps as root :) 

First you should move the GFD directory out of the root home directory and into 
your home:

sudo mv /root/googlefontdirectory .;

Then you should change the ownership:

sudo chown -R `whoami`:`whoami` googlefontdirectory;

Then you should make a personal home fonts directory:

mkdir .fonts;

Then copy the fonts into there:

cp googlefontdirectory/*/*ttf .fonts/;

Hope this helps

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 11 Dec 2011 at 10:17

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