Install a nerd font on ubuntu

instructions.md

1.) Download a Nerd Font

2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts

3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

Since I just loaded Ubuntu on a new computer, had trouble and found this page, I'll add that the instructions at the top are great except unzipping didn't put them in a folder for me, so neovim/lazyvim didn't seem to load them properly. To get it to load, I had to put it into a folder inside the font folder. For example, after downloading FiraCode Nerd Font I went to my Downloads folder and ran...

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts      # create folder to load fonts into
mkdir FiraCode                     # matches the name of the zip file
mv ./FiraCode.zip ./FiraCode       # move the zip into the new folder
cd FiraCode                        # change directory into the folder
unzip FiraCode.zip                 # unzip into the folder
rm FiraCode.zip                    # delete the zip file, we don't need it anymore
cd ..                              # change directory back up to Downloads
mv ./FiraCode ~/.local/share/fonts # move our new font folder into the font folder we created at the beginning
fc-cache -fv                       # reload the font-cache

Very manual, but I don't think I should need to update these very often!