Installing truetype fonts in Suse Linux

Damn! There's no ttmkfdir in Suse 9.1 - I looked, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm missing something. :( In any case, the help for installing new fonts is in the Administration Guide, Chapter 4, section 2.

Simply install the fonts in some directory which is a subdirectory of the directories listed in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. For example, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype Alternately, use KDE's font installer from the Kontrol center. Either way the result is the same.

If the fonts are already present in some other partition - for example, the /fonts/ directory on the Windows partition, create symlinks to those fonts using SuSEconfig --module fonts

This is applicable for all font types - bitmap fonts, TrueType and OpenType fonts, and Type1 (PostScript) fonts. It isn't applicable to CID fonts. CID-keyed fonts must be installed in /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/CIDFont.

In any case, given that ~/.fonts is mentioned in /etc/fons/fonts.conf in both Red Hat/Fedora and Suse, one of the simplest ways to install fonts - one common to both flavors of Linux would be to drop the fonts in ~/.fonts.