Install Fira Code Font for Ubuntu

Feb 16, 2021 Github Version Control

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This tutorial provides instructions for installing the Fira Code font in various versions of Ubuntu. This is my favorite font due to its various ligatures.

Ubuntu 16.04

1sudo apt-install git
2cd /tmp
3git clone https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode.git
4sudo mv -i /tmp/FiraCode/distr/ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fira-code
5sudo fc-cache -fv

Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04, 20.04 and later

1sudo apt update && \
2sudo apt install fonts-firacode

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Installation for other systems: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Linux-instructions