HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

[hadrons123]

This is a guide how to install Infinality font settings for Debian testing and unstable.
The steps given here are provided by the package maintainer Xiao-Long Chen at github.
Make sure you have the development packages as needed.

1. Clone the git repo

git clone https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Debian-Packages.git
cd Debian-Packages/

2. Install the build dependencies. Run the following
command and install the packages it lists using apt-get/synaptic/etc.

cd freetype-infinality/
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
cd ../fontconfig-infinality/
dpkg-checkbuilddeps

3. Build the packages:

cd ../freetype-infinality/
./build.sh
cd ../fontconfig-infinality/
./build.sh

4. Install the deb files:

cd ..
sudo dpkg -i freetype-infinality/*.deb fontconfig-infinality/*.deb

You'll need to reboot after installing the deb files. Enjoy the better
looking fonts!

Thanks to Xiao-Long Chen.

I have linked the debian binaries for some who don't prefer to build it on your system.
Its amd64 based packages.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106654446/infin ... -1_all.deb
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106654446/infin ... -1_all.deb
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106654446/infin ... _amd64.deb

Download these packages and install with dpkg.

[bwat47]

thank you for the guide, I did it in wheezy and it worked great infinality font rendering is essential to me, can't stand using any linux distro without it.

[hadrons123]

Do you see any error messages in your bash terminal after you input your commands?

[bwat47]

haven't seen any errors so far, do any type of commands in particular generate them?

[hadrons123]

If you don't see errors, its OK. Its been dicussed already in this thread too.

[hadrons123]

If you don't see errors, its OK. Its been dicussed already in this http://www.infinality.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=206&p=1974&e=1974d too.

[kcanbe]

Subpixel-hinting and Font-smoothing

http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Infinality_for_Debian

A lot of things about the cairo package has changed recently in wheezy and unstable which have brought almost the same font setup to Debian (But not Squeeze or old) but you have to set it up to your liking. You can create a .fonts.conf file to any user account home folder to set this up. Patching and rebuilding of Cairo packages are not needed any more.

Here's a fonts file that works very well without infinality if anyone wants to go the native Debian way...



$HOME/.fonts.conf

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
  <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
   <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
   <const>lcddefault</const>
   </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

[hadrons123]

Still not as smooth as infinality.
Thanks for the input, anyway.

[kcanbe]

Infinality is clearly better, but look how close native Debian (with a proper fonts.conf) is to Infinality ...

[hadrons123]

When you have higher resolution screen with more pixel density you can make a clear difference. Even though adding just a .fonts.conf file is easy. The benefits of infinality on your eyes are clearly better.

[bwat47]

EDIT: NVM