The LinkPeek snapshot workers now have support for Google Web Fonts!

We solved this issue by installing the fonts locally on each snapshot worker. As a way of giving back to the community, we have decided to share our font install proceedure.

How to install Google web fonts to a Linux localhost

1. create a directory for google fonts

   mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts/
   

2. install mercurial hg

   # ubuntu or debian
   sudo apt-get install -y mercurial
   
   # fedora or redhat or centos
   sudo yum install -y mercurial
   

3. clone the hg font repo (this could take a while)

   hg clone https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ googlefontdirectory;
   

4. install fonts: find fonts, copy to the new directory, fix mode

   cd googlefontdirectory
   find . -name '*.ttf' -exec sudo cp {} /usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts/ \;
   sudo chmod -R 644 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts/
   

Now local applications like Libre Office and Gimp should have access to web fonts!