How to install Microsoft Core Fonts

Microsoft Core Fonts

These fonts need to be built from the web so you will build an rpm package based on a SPEC file.

su -c 'yum install wget rpmdevtools rpmbuild cabextract ttmkfdir'

• Then create the rpmdev directory

rpmdev-setuptree

• Switch to your SPECS directory that you created in the previous step.

cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/

• Download the spec file.

wget http://dl.atrpms.net/all/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc9.x86_64.rpm
wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

• run the following command to build the rpm

rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

• Move to where the msttcorefonts rpm was created

cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/

• Download and install the msttcorefonts and dependencies

su -c 'rpm -ivh chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc9.x86_64.rpm'
su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm'

• Then run the following code to restart the font server.

su -c '/sbin/service xfs reload'

Or

su -c '/etc/init.d/xfs reload'