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Install MS TrueType core fonts on Fedora 13 and 14

Written by Mel Kham on September 10, 2010. Posted in Linux tutorials

TrueType is a digital font technology designed by Apple Computer, and now used by both Apple and Microsoft in their operating systems. Microsoft has distributed millions of quality TrueType fonts in hundreds of different styles, including them in its range of products and the popular TrueType Font Packs. TrueType fonts offer the highest possible quality on computer screens and printers, and include a range of features which make them easy to use.

To install Truetype fonts on Fedora 13 and 14, first download and install some needed packages

yum install rpm-build cabextract

Download the specs to build the RPM

 wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

Build the RPM

 rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

Install the Packages

sudo rpm -ivh $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

if you have some issues with this packages /usr/sbin/chkfontpath install it from rpm.pbone.net you can use the packages from F12 of F13

rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/f12-x86_64/atrpms/stable/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc12.x86_64.rpm

check if the package is instaled

rpm -qa  |  grep msttcore

Output

msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch

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10 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Ryan

I keep getting a failed dependencies.

Failed dependencies:
/usr/sbin/chkfontpath is needed by msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch

how do I fix this?
Ryan

Thank you found it. Needed to install chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc8.x86_64.rpm

even though I am running F14 got the package from http://rpm.pbone.net/
- Nik
  
  Or you can find the packages here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1132
Zinovsky

Did you install the rpm-build cabextract packages?
http://izhamwong.blogspot.com I wong

I keep getting a failed dependencies.

Failed dependencies:
/usr/sbin/chkfontpath is needed by msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch

I fix it by installing xorg-x11-xfs from KpackageKit

Then I install chkfontpatch
rpm -ivh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/chkfontpath-1.10.1-1.1.x86_64.rpm

After that
sudo rpm -ivh $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

All done.
Thanks for this great tutorial.
Chris

When I run

rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/f12-x86_64/atrpms/stable/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc12.x86_64.rpm

in a terminal I get a failed dependencies error, all of which have in brackets (64 bit). I am running 32 bit fedora 14 is there another ftp address I should use for that section something like
rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/f12-x86_32/atrpms/stable/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc12.x86_32.rpm

maybe?
Any help is appreciated
- pirat9
  
  Sure . if you are using 32bit . install 32 it version
Chris

Success, anyone looking to achieve this for the 32bit version can find instructions here

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-14-i686-gnome-p4
Eric

For Fedora 16, chkfontpath can be found here:

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/f16-x86_64/atrpms/stable/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm
manifestoe

try this instead …

rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.2-1.noarch.rpm

this rpm downloads the cabfiles and installs the fonts to X core and Xft. It does not contain the fonts.

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