Updating Ubuntu with Missing MS Arabic Fonts

Often documents are written in Arabic using specific Windows fonts, so when the document needs to be viewed on Ubuntu it might not display correctly. One method to solve this problem, is to use the fonts from your Windows partition within Ubuntu.

First create a new directory within Ubuntu under the system’s truetype fonts path, for your Win fonts:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/mywinfonts

Then copy the fonts from your windows partition into your newly created folder “mywinfonts”:

sudo cp /media/system/WINDOWS/Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype/mywinfonts/

Now you need to reload the font cache for the new fonts to be available immediately:

fc-cache -f -v