Me Myself and Python

Whenever we spread the message of Gnu/Linux and Malayalam computing in Gnu/Linux, the most redundant thing that we have to perform is to search for the fonts and install it for each Malayalam newspapers and blogs.
I found it quite irritating to repeat the same steps for downloading and installing the fonts. So I decided to script it ..

This is the “malayalam.sh”

Run it as

sh malayalam.sh

Then close all the instances of firefox/konqueror and start them again.. Now watch the Malayalam News Papers in Style

########### Malayalam Font support in Linux ###############

# Shell script for Malayalam Newspaper and blog support in Fedora Core x.

# Hoping that you will have the minimal installation of Linux

# applications like wget should be present and you should have root righs

# It’s quick and dirty ….. but it works as it is simple…

# For malayalam manorama new paper

wget http://www.manoramaonline.com/mmfont/Manorama.ttf

cp ./Manorama.ttf /usr/share/fonts/

# For Mathrubhumi news paper

wget http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/downloadFont.php

cp ./downloadFont.php /usr/share/fonts/Matweb.ttf

#For Kaumudi news paper

wget http://www.kaumudi.com/font/thoolika.ttf

cp ./thoolika.ttf /usr/share/fonts/

# For Deepika news paper

wget http://www.deepika.com/mlkr0ntt_TTF.ttf

cp ./mlkr0ntt_TTF.ttf /usr/share/fonts/

#for Rachana

wget http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Rachana_w01.zip

unzip Rachana_w01.zip

cp ./Rachana_w01/Rachana_w01.ttf /usr/share/fonts/

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Enjoy…….