recipe: install Microsoft TrueType fonts in Ubuntu

recipe January 3rd, 2008

Even if you use primarily free software and free fonts, you might want to install the Microsoft TrueType fonts so that Microsoft Office documents will look the way they were intended to look. Also, most webpages are designed with Microsoft fonts in mind, so after installing these fonts, they will look the way they are intended to look. This “recipe” will tell you how to install the Microsoft TrueType fonts in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).

The Truetype Microsoft fonts provided by the package include:

Andale Mono
Arial Black
Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Comic Sans MS (Bold)
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings

Requirements:

administrator privledges (able to use the “sudo” command)
universe and multiverse repositories enabled (See this post to learn how to enable the universe and multiverse repositories)

Instructions:

Note: This “recipe” was written for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), but may (or may not) work for other versions or distributions.

To install the Microsoft TrueType core fonts, you can execute the following steps:

1. Open a terminal and install the fonts:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

2. The Microsoft TrueType core fonts are now installed. If there are other TrueType fonts that you want to install, copy the font files to the ~/.fonts directory.

3. After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts. If you want to avoid this, you can regenerate the fonts cache:
sudo fc-cache -fv

Note: This “recipe” was written for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), but may (or may not) work for other versions or distributions.

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