Dejavu Sans Mono is my go to font for development. For this to work
nicely with Vim airline characters as well as developer fonts a number
of extra fonts are needed. For this I created DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline Nerd Font.tff
which contains all the required fonts. To add
this to your Ubuntu font image and keep it up to date with my image you
can soft link to it from your ~/.local/share/fonts/ directory as
follows.
Make sure the correct permissions are added to the downloaded font (cloned from this repository).
From the cloned directory
chmod 664 DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline\ Nerd\ Font.ttf
From the cloned directory
ln -s DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline\ Nerd\ Font.tff ~/.local/share/fonts/DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline\ Nerd\ Font.tff