HOWTO install infinality font-settings for Debian

[crborga]

Jessie 32 bit packages
fontconfig-infinality_1-2_all.deb
freetype-infinality_2.4.9-3_all.deb
libfreetype-infinality6_2.4.9-3_i386.deb

[syntone]

How to install these packages on Wheezy 32-bit?

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

[squeeze]

easy alternative: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... 038de8b6af

[hadrons123]

Please read previous posts, for better understanding of infinality. Ubuntu font sets is not my target for this guide.

[squeeze]

Well sorry for beeing offtopic here but unfortunately the packages for jessie are very outdated and i'm too dumb (aka inexpierienced) to rebuild these packages for debian: https://launchpad.net/~rjvbertin/+archi ... inaltimate via https://wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA. (cairo fails to configure with font-stamp error, fontconfig and freetype build just fine)

You're right though infinality is way better than my 'easy alternative'.

EDIT: It would be very appreciated if some debian geeks could do the job

[BubuXP]

EDIT: It would be very appreciated if some debian geeks could do the job

I'm not really a geek but I managed to build Infinality for Jessie (instruction inside).
This is the "old-school", original Infinality, although using bohoomil patches for freetype. Soon I'll try to build new packages using this whole new Infinality project.

[DebbyIan]

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

I personally feel Pre looks better. Post is too smudged in my view.

Is there a good font recommendation which looks very sharp at around Size 8? It must be a Sans type.

[jochen]

I changed Xiao-Long Chen's Debian build to work with freetype 2.4.12 (newest Infinality patchset). If you follow the instructions in the first post, use my tgz for the freetype-infinality directory.

Freetype Infinality 2.4.12

And the compiled debs:

fontconfig-infinality
freetype-infinality
libfreetype-infinality6-amd64

[Mad_7]

Hi!

Did someone succeded, building Infinality Ultimate (bohoomil's) for Wheezy?
G.

[dysnomia]

August 12, 2015 --- Note: ibfonts-base fails to download some fonts

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  Symbola.zip download url is broken:
    download here:
    http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/gdouros-symbola-fonts/Symbola.zip/9c8d59868988659dd7fd923c69433cd7/Symbola.zip
    create font folder if it does not exist: mkdir -p .font_downloads
    and copy the Symbola.zip there
  Noto fonts seems to have been updated:
    edit ibfonts-base_build.sh
    below the line:
      # Validate integrity of downloaded font archives   
        delete these lines:   
          e954b37fb20e858a48bb1da513d120ae26afa1189b10922d46486ff06967d074  NotoSans-hinted.zip
          3d23e8c04fdcfacfc9c2ea3abae0afbdd441cfbc3721b8b674e9d22fa92b97aa  NotoSerif-hinted.zip
        change:
          'numOfChecksums=8' to 'numOfChecksums=6'
        and delete line (or comment out):
          [[ $(($(find . -type f | wc -l)-1)) -eq $numOfChecksums ]] || { echo "$(basename $0): ERROR: Missing checksum or numOfKnownChecksums is wrong"; exit 1; }
  Run clean script and build script


April 19, 2015 --- Updated post + scripts (fontconfig-ultimate from March 31)
April 01, 2015 --- Updated post + fontconfig script


Hello!
Here are some handy scripts i made for building infinality-ultimate packages for jessie/sid.
I tested this only for amd64 but perhaps it works for i386 too.

Download

freetype 2.5.5
- update your system
- unpack, cd to the plain_freetype_package folder and run freetype_build.sh
- cd to the upper folder and run freetype_iu_build.sh to build the package with the infinality-ultimate patches (it uses the package source we built in the previous step)

fontconfig 2.11.1
- same procedure as for freetype but different script filenames ...

cairo 1.14.2
- to build it we need to install infinality-ultimate freetype and fontconfig first

ibfonts-base
- unpack and run ibfonts-base_build.sh

ibfonts-extended-lt (depends on ibfonts-base)
- same procedure as for ibfonts-base

ibfonts-extended (depends on ibfonts-base + ibfonts-extended-lt)
- same procedure as for ibfonts-base

(If googlefontdirectory returns an error when downloading, try again later... (and later...))

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Backup your current '~/.config/fontconfig/' folder, '~/.fonts.conf' and '/etc/fonts/' folder

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tar -czvf stock_fontsconf_backup.tar.gz /home/<username>/.config/fontconfig/ /home/<username>/.fonts.conf /etc/fonts/ /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh

Make sure that the dependencies of the dev packages are installed

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apt-get install libpng12-dev zlib1g-dev libexpat1-dev pkg-config

Uninstall packages

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dpkg --purge --force-depends freetype2-demos libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev

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dpkg --purge --force-depends fontconfig fontconfig-config libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dbg libfontconfig1-dev

Delete possible leftover files
Important: After doing this you cannot open new application/console windows since there is no font configuration. So don't close the console window until the new packages are installed ...

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rm -rf /home/<username>/.config/fontconfig/
rm -f  /home/<username>/.fonts.conf
rm -rf /etc/fonts/*
rm -f  /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh


Install newly built packages

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dpkg -i libfreetype6_*d*b*amd64.deb libfreetype6-dev_*d*b*amd64.deb

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dpkg -i fontconfig_*d*b*amd64.deb fontconfig-config_*d*b*all.deb libfontconfig1_*d*b*amd64.deb libfontconfig1-dev_*d*b*amd64.deb

Reboot debian

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Now we can build cairo
- unpack, and run cairo_iu_build.sh to build the package with the infinality-ultimate patches

Uninstall cairo packages

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dpkg --purge --force-depends cairo-perf-utils libcairo2 libcairo2-dbg libcairo2-dev libcairo2-doc libcairo-gobject2 libcairo-script-interpreter2

Install newly built cairo packages

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dpkg -i libcairo2_*d*b*amd64.deb libcairo-gobject2_*d*b*amd64.deb

Reboot debian

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As normal user, check that the X resources and environment variables are set as defined in /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh

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cat /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh
xrdb -query | grep  'Xft.'; export | grep 'INFINALITY_FT'


If some X resource settings are missing, set them in your ~/.Xresources file. If the file does not exist, create it.
Append to ~/.Xresources :

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! infinality-ultimate
Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.autohint:   0
Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull
Xft.lcdfilter:  lcddefault
Xft.rgba:       rgb


Reboot debian, and check again. Now if all X resources are displayed but some values are wrong, try adjusting the
font settings in your desktop environment accordingly (subpixel on RGB, hinting on Full) and check again with

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xrdb -query | grep  'Xft.'

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To remove infinaltiy / revert back to stock packages:

Delete ~/.Xresources or revert changes

Uninstall packages

dpkg --purge ...... commands (see above)
and delete possible leftover files (see above)

Restore backup

extract stock_fontsconf_backup.tar.gz to /

Install stock packages

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apt-get install -f

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Locations of some files

Settings file:
/etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh
conf.avail.infinality:
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail.infinality/

Additional *.conf files:
/usr/share/fontconfig/fonts-settings/
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-config/infinality-ultimate/

Generic infinality-settings:
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/infinality-ultimate/

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Install infinality-bundle font collections

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ibfonts-base
Uninstall conflicting stock font packages

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dpkg --purge --force-depends fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-core fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-liberation fonts-noto

Install ibfonts-base

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dpkg -i ibfonts-base*.deb

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ibfonts-extended-lt
Uninstall conflicting stock font packages

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dpkg --purge --force-depends fonts-cantarell fonts-crosextra-caladea fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-droid fonts-texgyre

Install ibfonts-extended-lt

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dpkg -i ibfonts-extended-lt*.deb

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ibfonts-extended
Uninstall conflicting stock font packages

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dpkg --purge --force-depends fonts-lohit-guru

Install ibfonts-extended

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dpkg -i ibfonts-extended_1*.deb

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To remove infinality-bundle font collections / revert back to stock packages:

Uninstall packages

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dpkg --purge --force-depends ibfonts-base ibfonts-extended-lt ibfonts-extended

Install stock packages

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apt-get install -f

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And that's all

[DebbyIan]

What's the difference between plain and iu packages?

[BubuXP]

Settings file:
/etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh

I rename infinality-settings.sh to 99infinality-settings and place it in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ because last time I checked, Debian didn't process the scripts in /etc/profile.d/ (but maybe now has changed).

One must consider also that /etc/profile.d/ is processed even if a X session isn't started, while infinality without an X session is useless. So placing the settings file in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ as above should be the correct manner.

[dysnomia]

I rename infinality-settings.sh to 99infinality-settings and place it in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ because last time I checked, Debian didn't process the scripts in /etc/profile.d/ (but maybe now has changed).

I tryed that, did not work for me on KDE, so i decided to put it in /etc/profile.d where it gets executed at least (but obviously before the xserver has been started)
to set the environment variables and put the xserver variables in ~/.Xresources. Even with this solution KDE partially overwrites the xserver variables later with its own settings
stored in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf. So one must make sure the anti-aliasing settings in 'System Settings->Application Appearence->Fonts' do match!

btw, i got initially inspired by your work to make these script

[gkop]

I just wanted to say THANK YOU to jochen for the packages in viewtopic.php?f=16&t=88545&start=30#p566078 .

I tried several other suggestions, which did improve on the default Jessie fonts, but these ^^ packages yielded me the same BEAUTIFUL infinality fonts that I had become accustomed to on Wheezy (imo this font rendering is more beautiful than any others I have ever seen, including windows and OSX ) So happy!

[kenwong]

Anybody using testing (stretch) and having installed infinality? How should I install infinality on stretch?

Thank you.