Installing MS Core Fonts on Linux(Fedora)
Tagged with: design, fonts, install, Linux, reinstall
Download the MS Core Fonts Smart Package File
wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
Make sure that the rpm-build and cabextract packages are installed:
yum install rpm-build cabextract
Build the Core Fonts package:
rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
Install the Core Fonts package:
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
[tags]fonts,linux,design,install,reinstall[/tags]
July 14th, 2007 23:06
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March 10th, 2008 04:36
[root@ws ~]# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/sbin/chkfontpath is needed by msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch
[root@ws-oliverp ~]# yum -y install chkfontpath