diff --git a/startkde/startplasmacompositor.cmake b/startkde/startplasmacompositor.cmake
--- a/startkde/startplasmacompositor.cmake
+++ b/startkde/startplasmacompositor.cmake
@@ -39,38 +39,6 @@
     . $exportformatssettings
 }
 
-# Make sure the Oxygen font is installed
-# This is necessary for setups where CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
-# is not in /usr. fontconfig looks in /usr, ~/.fonts and
-# $XDG_DATA_HOME for fonts. In this case, we symlink the
-# Oxygen font under ${XDG_DATA_HOME} and make it known to
-# fontconfig
-
-usr_share="/usr/share"
-install_share="@KDE_INSTALL_FULL_DATADIR@"
-
-if [ ! $install_share = $usr_share ]; then
-
-    if [ ${XDG_DATA_HOME} ]; then
-        fontsDir="${XDG_DATA_HOME}/fonts"
-    else
-        fontsDir="${HOME}/.fonts"
-    fi
-
-    test -d $fontsDir || {
-        mkdir -p $fontsDir
-    }
-
-    oxygenDir=$fontsDir/truetype/oxygen
-    prefixDir="@KDE_INSTALL_FULL_DATADIR@/fonts/truetype/oxygen"
-
-    # if the oxygen dir doesn't exist, create a symlink to be sure that the
-    # Oxygen font is available to the user
-    test -d $oxygenDir || test -d $prefixDir && {
-        test -h $oxygenDir || ln -s $prefixDir $oxygenDir && fc-cache $oxygenDir
-    }
-fi
-
 kstartupconfig5
 returncode=$?
 if test $returncode -ne 0; then