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freetype package

  1. Bug #1722508
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 1722508

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Woko (wolfram-koehn) wrote : Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

I had the same Problem. The monospace-font in konsole looked ugly after upgrade from 17.04.
Same with freetype 2.8.1.
Then I downgraded libfreetype to 2.6.3 as HorstBort mentioned, and konsole looks nice again.
Here the description how I managed it:

1. add 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty main restricted universe multiverse' in '/etc/apt/sources.list'

2. create the file '/etc/apt/preferences' with the following contents:
 ---
 Package: libfreetype6:amd64
 Pin: version 2.6.3*
 Pin-Priority: 1001

 Package: *
 Pin: release v=17.04, l=Ubuntu
 Pin-Priority: -1

 Package: libfreetype6:i386
 Pin: version 2.6.3*
 Pin-Priority: 1001

 Package: *
 Pin: release v=17.04, l=Ubuntu
 Pin-Priority: -1
 ---

3. apt-get update