Installing Microsoft True Type Core Fonts in Fedora 19

 Installing Microsoft True Type Core Fonts in Fedora 19

 November 17th, 2013 | Author:  Haider M. al-Khateeb

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Linux distributions such as Fedora does not include any Microsoft TrueType fonts (TTFs) by default. To get these, have a look at the resources and guidelines available from the following sourceforge.net project: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

First, Microsoft TTFs package includes the following font-families:

• Andale Mono

• Arial Black/Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Comic Sans MS (Bold)
• Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Impact
• Tahoma
• Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Webdings

Second, the following steps must be followed to get the fonts added:

1. Make sure the following is installed:

   yum install rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir

2. Download the latest msttcorefonts spec from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net and build an rpm file
   Example:

   cd /tmp wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

3. The RPM file will be stored in: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/, install it using

   rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.noarch.rpm

Third, restart your system to get this working. I used my gnome-tweak-tool to change my default fonts to Arial and Times New Roman.

And finally, the path to Fedora’s fonts directory is /usr/share/fonts in which the newly added fonts can be located now. Further, any ttf font files can be added directly to a (new) folder following this path, Google Fonts: http://www.google.com/fonts is a very good resource for these. If a new ttf file is added, refresh the system using fc-cache -v and enjoy!

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