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02-07-2005, 08:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Central NY
Posts: 2
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Distro with Microsoft Fonts???
Is there a Linux distro that comes packaged with Microsoft fonts so I don't have to play games to download them?
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02-07-2005, 09:12 PM
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Gentoo Developer
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Fort Lauderdale FL.
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 3,291
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Gentoo
emerge corefonts
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02-07-2005, 10:52 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Australia
Distribution: Mandriva/Slack - KDE
Posts: 1,672
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You can get the fonts for any distro tho... Easy to install with the distros I've tried...
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02-07-2005, 11:06 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Mint 13/15, CentOS 6.4
Posts: 2,020
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arch has them prepackaged, also. it's as easy as:
# pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts
and they're installed.
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02-07-2005, 11:33 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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I got a friend to copy them from their TT fonts directory from Windows XP. They work fine on the Linux distros that I run.
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02-08-2005, 09:17 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Mint 13/15, CentOS 6.4
Posts: 2,020
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Quote:
Originally posted by reddazz
I got a friend to copy them from their TT fonts directory from Windows XP. They work fine on the Linux distros that I run.
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of course they do, why wouldn't they? 
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02-08-2005, 01:04 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Indonesia
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 211
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02-08-2005, 02:39 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Surprise, AZ
Distribution: Debian | CentOS | Arch
Posts: 1,103
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SUSE has it right in the package selection as well..
BTW - can you pull any of the windows tt fontsover onto linux?? i didn't know that... 
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02-11-2005, 06:09 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian
Posts: 1,055
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sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
for Ubuntu
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