how to install mscorefonts in debian 9.8
 

ok - tried a lot of different stuff - does not show up in synaptic package manager. i changed the repos to mani contrib non-free for all of the deb packages as a debian wiki article said and updated and still nothing.

ny clues please. need certain fonts for rojects and files.

In future, if you want to search to see whether a package is available in Debian, this is a useful resource:

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages

so - really dumb question. why doesn't it show up under any possible name configuration in synaptic manager???? that does not make sense????

also would the restrictions of repo packages via synaptic also apply to terminal??????

thank for your help yet again.

I don't normally use Synaptic at all, but I've just opened it and searched for mscore - it returns ttf-mscorefonts-installer. I'm on Mint 19.1, so the equivalent to Ubuntu 18.04, but the package is also in Debian so it should work for Debian too.

Did you run apt update after amending your software sources so that your system was made aware of all the new packages that were available?

If you would like me to have a quick look at your software sources, please paste the output from inxi -r (install inxi if you don't already have it installed).

In response to the restrictions question, both Synaptic and apt/apt-get commands on the terminal access and modify the same underlying APT/DPKG package system, so as long as that package system supports a certain feature then it will be reflected in both. Which restrictions are you talking about?

yes i did run update after changing them. and also on debian it does not pul it up - i have tried many times over the last month or more. nothing show up in serch. seriously...

let me get on the debian laptop and see what it comes up with and i will post back. thanks!!!! :-)) i appreciate your help.

deb forum was useless and had a few people say SEARCH or find another distro.

root@debian:/home/debian# inxi -r
bash: inxi: command not found


was not sure what toy meant by which restrictions???? in repos?

it seems like i have to run as su? yes?no? i was told debian has to run as su and not sudo.

what am i missing and what was i told right or wrong?

Please install inxi with apt install inxi.

You were the one who first mentioned "restrictions" (see post 3). :)

Just run the command as root in whichever way you see fit. For info, sudo is available for Debian but needs to manually installed and configured if it wasn't auto installed on initial system installation.

ok root@debian:/home/debian# apt install inxi.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package inxi.
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'inxi.'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'inxi.'
root@debian:/home/debian# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Ign:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Get:5 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB]
Hit:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Fetched 94.3 kB in 1s (72.0 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@debian:/home/debian# inxi -r
bash: inxi: command not found
root@debian:/home/debian# ^C
root@debian:/home/debian#

the restricions were main - all of them were malred main and he wiki said to add after main contrib non-free and update. i did and notta. sorry - doing the best i can to explain and figure out why it doesn;t show up. on 3 ther linux system i had no issues whatsoever.

ok so:

root@debian:/home/debian# apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ttf-mscorefonts-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' has no installation candidate
root@debian:/home/debian#

so go figure....

Now, inxi should be in your repos as well, so something is definitely awry.

So, let's fall back to:

By the way, if you don't mind me saying so, you've been on here long enough to realise that you should post code and output within CODE tags (see https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...og.php?b=36313).

ok - i never knew how to do that code stuff. also not sure what you are telling me re: the last set of instructions so let's call it enough and i will live without it. i start messing with wrong stuff and my system is shot so live with what works. thanks so much. sorry i know so little that though i have been around my skillset is at 1 out of 100 - maybe 2 or 3.

Please don't give up. Enter the command I gave you in post #14 into your terminal command line and post the output here. If you can't work out CODE tags then don't bother with them.

Seriously my friend i appreciate all of your help. i have struggled with linux prior to ubuntu came out and had many issues. i learned a long time ago from an old friend in sweden now deceased that if it is not broken than don't fix it; and if you can't fix it then don't break it. i have run linux 100% for the last 4-5 years or so and just am reluctant with my lck of knowledge to mess stuff up. i still have 2 other laptops that have mscorefonts installed. just was hoping for consistency across all laptops. sorry i wasted your time but i DO appreciate your help. i am very smart about a number of other things but ths stuff has always been a gard thing to GET and no not apt-get! heh heh heh.

Really, I can see why you may have been offended when I wrote "You've been on here long enough". It was clumsy of me, so apologies.

Let's get this sorted out for you. It will be a pleasure to do so, and I won't ask you to do anything that may compromise your system. It would be nice to get your machine singing from the same hymn sheet as the others. :)

sorry had to take care of a new pup. I had to put the best friend and dog down in 66 years about 5 weeks ago, this new pup has a streak of demons in him.

anyway - we are more than good. i know you know your stuff. but i am fine. just could not understand why it was so hard vs the ease of other distros re: the font thing. It was a challenge to get this running and as such it was a success. but unless i had to run it on all my laptops i really rather run bodhi due to the no-real-hassles that i have found over the last bunch of years. thank you again.

Sorry to hear about your dog. :(

Look, I feel pretty terrible about this. I was busy helping you and then I obviously said the wrong thing about the CODE tags, or at least expressed it in the wrong way. It will also not be of much use to folk who visit this thread in the future. But if that's the way you want to play it.

no no issue with what you said about the code tags - you are right. i am just dumb about stuff. there is nothing you said wrong. things just got more complicated to install what should have been doable without my question even. i have installed many years from synaptic. i read stuff and tried stuff and tried to back out of stuff. it has NOTHING to do with anything you said. i respect you a lot here. trust an old man on that.

Debian has the package ‘ttf-mscorefonts-installer’ to install the mscorefonts. It’s in the ‘contrib’ section of the repository.

in that case you really shouldn't be using debian, which requires a little more hands-on than ubuntu or mint!

nothing like kicking a dude when he is down... thanks for your holy advice.

p.s. when you learned to drive did people say you should not be driving because you may not know how to fix a car?

(If i knew a lot more - i would have a decent job making mucho bucks doing serious tech stuff. i am a user that needs stuff to work with my minimal knowledge and also without minimal time. I also have been around enough to know what i like and do not like re: linux - distros - desktop - etc.)

just food for thought.

are you refering to me?
no "kicking" was intended, just advice:
debian requires at least rudimentary admin/cli capabilities.
since you clearly stated several times that that is not your thing, you would be much better off with a different distro.

i don't see the insult in pointing that out.

you can still "practice fixing" on a more preconfigured distro.