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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Installing MS TrueType core fonts on Linux

Instructions obtained from:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/


  1. Install cabextract and fedora-rpmdevtools:
    $ sudo yum install cabextract fedora-rpmdevtools

  2. Create the build tree:
     $ fedora-buildrpmtree 

  3. Get the SPEC file:
     $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPEC && wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec 

  4. Get the fonts and create the RPM package:
     $ rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec 

  5. Install the fonts package:
     $ sudo rpm -ivh ../RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm 



Restart any running application to use the new fonts.

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