How To Install MS True Type Fonts in Linux / Fedora Core
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkMonday, May 21, 2007
Microsoft’s True Type fonts can also be used on Linux. Not only can they improve visibility, they are essential for proper look and layout if you are using Internet Explorer on Linux for testing etc. The installation is very simple… well almost:
wget https://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
Note the path where the rpm is written and use it in the command below.
rpm -ivh /[path to rpm]/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
Restart the windows manager by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
 Brian Foulkrod |
March 27, 2010: 4:28 am
Rating Xubuntu as faster based on its using Xfce by default is misleading; the Xfce desktop is easily installed in Fedora using yum, and doing that would result in results much different. I could just as easily argue that working in bash shell is even faster…I once installed Fedora 6 on a Pentium (that’s the original pentium chip) PC using WindowMaker (since that release allowed me to use swap to install). |
 Arshed |
 Aaron |
April 3, 2008: 6:10 pm
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 Krishna |
February 25, 2008: 9:55 pm
I was trying the above steps to install the new font. But unfortunately, I do got an error message and you can find the error msg below. Please help how to proceed further. rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec Regards, |
Katie Mercado