Font Manager Fails in Ubuntu 16.04

Solution 1:

this worked for me (ubuntu 16.04 upgrading from 15.10)

installed font manager from: http://fontmanager.github.io/

then, in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:font-manager/staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install font-manager

and downloaded font from fonts.google.com and extracted, then opened each font with right click -> font manager

confirmed 'install'

Solution 2:

The Ubuntu and Debian archives include an ancient version of font-manager (0.5.7-4). One of the news in Ubuntu 16.04 was a new package for providing Chinese fonts, fonts-noto-cjk, and font-manager 0.5.7-4 can't handle fonts-noto-cjk (see this Debian bug report).

So if you don't need Chinese fonts, an alternative workaround is to uninstall the fonts-noto-cjk package. (Upgrading via ppa:font-manager/staging, as suggested by gzb, will work without uninstalling anything.)

There is a related Ubuntu bug.

Solution 3:

I had the same experience as you. I found the solution: use PPA to install a newer version of Font Manager

https://launchpad.net/~font-manager/+archive/ubuntu/staging