tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397957327520238682.post8576952332479838398..comments2023-06-14T04:52:13.574-07:00Comments on Mohammed Saudi Blog: Add MS Fonts to your Fedora linuxMohammed Saudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102404601720566691noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397957327520238682.post-76377389018824777412010-04-04T12:47:21.800-07:002010-04-04T12:47:21.800-07:00I forgot the source :
http://www.my-guides.net/en/...I forgot the source :<br />http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/174/26/2/4/Mohammed Saudihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102404601720566691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397957327520238682.post-85742872118722776842010-04-04T12:46:51.755-07:002010-04-04T12:46:51.755-07:007. Install Microsoft fonts
Fedora uses Liberation ...7. Install Microsoft fonts<br />Fedora uses Liberation and DejaVu fonts which are installed by default and look pretty smooth and nice, plus they are open source.<br />If you insist on using the Microsoft fonts you can download and install the msttcorefonts rpm like this.<br /><br />wget http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/fedora12/msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm<br />su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm'<br /><br /><br />I built it myself using the msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.spec from Fedora-devel mailing list. It includes Arial, Andale, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings fonts.<br /><br />The procedure just in case you want to build it yourself is the following.<br /><br />su -c 'yum install rpmdevtools rpm-build cabextract'<br />rpmdev-setuptree<br />cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/<br />wget http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/fedora12/msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.spec<br />rpmbuild -bb msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.spec<br />cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/<br />su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm'<br /><br /><br />Now you can change your fonts through System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> FontsMohammed Saudihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102404601720566691noreply@blogger.com