HowTo: Have Windows fonts in Mint (or Ubuntu) [Link fixed]

[subversiveasset2.0]

I'm not touching the semi-argument here, but I think if there were some way to get the equivalent of cleartype, it would be a little better.

[moheganer2]

when i went to extract to /etc/font a message came up that i did not have permissions to extract there.

[derixc]

thanks! my font looks much better now.

deric
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[DR1665]

This is very cool. Using Ubuntu for less than a month, now. Just getting familiar with use of terminal. Ran the command in the article and sat on the couch in amazement as Ubuntu did the rest. When it was done, and it told me it was done, I actually said, out loud, "Wow." Re-loaded the Open Office and everything was right there waiting for me.

Consider me impressed with Linux.

[chris0101]

I realize that this is resurrecting a dead thread and that this sort of thing is frowned upon, but a lot of the links are now dead.

I uploaded the tarball myself:

http://www.mediafire.com/?o2zwntzyqzm

[harlekein]

Thanks man! Much better

[Nick_Djinn]

I like the fonts that look like a child wrote them.

[saronyoisgod]

wen i try to paste the extracted files in the fonts folder , it says u dont have write permissions and wen i use

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etc $/ chmod 777 fonts 

it says u r not permittede to change the permissions !!!! wat to do ???

[rick]

Didn't work for me in mint. Downloads had Setup ODM.exe file in it which produced nothing but error windows. Thanks. Good try.

[DeMus]

I just installed it in Cinnamon 18 and it works as always: great.
How did you install it?

[Moem]

Didn't work for me in mint. Downloads had Setup ODM.exe file in it which produced nothing but error windows.

Well, yeah, .exe files do not work in Linux.

I'm not sure what you tried to install, maybe you can elaborate?
If you want MS fonts in Mint, you can simply open the Software Manager and install mscorefonts from there.

[Flemur]

Downloads had Setup ODM.exe file in it which produced nothing but error windows.

Probably just as well: ODM="Open Downloader Manager".

It's bogus to download a downloader just to download files, and I always assume they're malware installers.

To install any .ttf file:
- as root/sudo, copy the file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/<optional-directory>
- as root/sudo, run "fc-cache -fv"

[Moem]

And the GUI method:
- Download .ttf file
- Open the file in Font Viewer (doubleclicking should do it)
- Click the Install button.

It's nice to have options, after all.

[JeremyB]

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sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Should work for LM17.3 after signing the EULA

[rene]

Additionally you're likely to want to get the Google-developed Carlito and Caladea fonts, metric-compatible with respectively the Calibri and Cambria Windows fonts.

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sudo apt-get install fonts-crosextra-{carlito,caladea}