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The problem:

When I try to select the font, there is no regular DejaVu Sans Mono , only the bold, book, and oblique variations. Here a screenshot . However, LibreOffice Writer shows the font, and I can use it without any issue on it.

I installed all the ttf-dejavu packages sudo apt install ttf-dejavu*

My System:

Ubuntu 19.04 64-bit. GNOME 3.32.1

Not so related questions:

I don't want a possibly "fake" variation, but the regular font: cannot see bold in gnome

The OP starts saying that is able to see the font in gnome-terminal: ttf-dejavu fonts in xlsfonts

Thanks in advance

This issue is not specific to gnome-terminal in particular, e.g. gedit also offers the same variants of DejaVu Sans Mono. (Gedit also lists non-monospaced fonts while the Terminal filters them out, but that's not the issue here.) On the other hand the Terminal and Gedit offer variants that LibreOffice don't. So it's a more generic difference between how GNOME software vs. LibreOffice handle fonts. Or maybe they just call them differently, isn't DejaVu Sans Mono Book the font you're looking for? – egmont Jul 22, 2019 at 20:39 Note that the two "not so related questions" and their answers date back to 2010, presumably a lot has changed since then. – egmont Jul 22, 2019 at 20:39 @egmont Thanks for the complementary information. To your question: no, the book variation is narrower than the regular – onlycparra Jul 22, 2019 at 21:12