installing microsoft core fonts in opensuse 11.0
July 1, 2008
When you try to use linux, let’s say when you want to use openoffice to create a document. You will see that there are no microsoft core fonts (i.e Times New Roman, Comic Sans, etc). Well it could be a little disadvantage for you. But there are a solution for this. You could indeed try to install the microsoft core fonts. here’s how
download the scripts.
linux-5fkn:/home/jacobian # wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh
after that change the permission
linux-5fkn:/home/jacobian # chmod a+x fetchmsttfonts.sh
and finally
linux-5fkn:/home/jacobian # sudo sh fetchmsttfonts.sh
remember that you should have an active internet connection to do this as its download all the fonts from the internet. Now when you open openoffice you will see all the microsoft core fonts there.
PS: Maybe you notice that the scripts is for opensuse 10.3 but it could also works on opensuse 11.
