Install Malayalam fonts in Ubuntu 16.04

Package ttf-malayalam-fonts replaced by  fonts-smc fonts-samyak-mlym fonts-mlym fonts-lohit-mlym in Ubuntu 16.04.

See the chillu (ചില്ല്) letter (ല്ല) before and after installation of Malayalam fonts.

Installation

Open a Terminal and apply following commands,

sudo su

apt-get install fonts-smc fonts-samyak-mlym fonts-mlym fonts-lohit-mlym

To get more Malayalam fonts, visit https://smc.org.in/fonts/

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Install Indian fonts

India is a country rich with regional languages. You can install regional language fonts in Ubuntu. Apply following command in a terminal,

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fonts-indic

This font package include Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada etc.

Install Malayalam Fonts alone
Apply following command to install only Malayalam Fonts.

sudo apt-get install fonts-mlym

Beautiful Malayalam fonts available at Swathantra Malayalam Computing website.

Image courtesy: IIT Madras

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