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.