Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Hi :)
I found the name for Ubuntu 10.04, so the command would be:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

and installing Synaptic Package Manager would be:  

sudo apt-get install synaptic

but i agree with Johnny that it sounds like Ubuntu 12.04 and i suspect he has checked the exactly 
right name already.  Generally i find Synaptic useful for looking up things when i am not totally 
sure of the name of the thing.  It searches in package descriptions as well as titles so you can be 
pretty vague with searches.  Then it's easy to pick and choose (although probably ignore all the 
packages starting with "lib..." so just scroll through them fast).  

The command-line is easiest when giving advice to people because it's pretty much identical across 
all the different distros although some families-of-distros use alternatives to apt-get.  I think 
those alternatives use similar tags and, of course, the package names tend to be the same, for 
example libreoffice is called the same thing in all afaik.  

Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Sun, 22/7/12, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 22 July, 2012, 12:32

2012/7/22 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>:
> Hi :)
> There is always at least 1 distro that renames things a bit.  In this case i think it's Ubuntu so 
> it might be worth searching your package manager to get the right fonts
> Regards from
> Tom :)

Well, the OP said he had Ubuntu, but not which version. I assumed
12.04 since he also asked how to install Synaptic. I think (but I'm
not 100% sure) that 12.04 is the first Ubuntu that doesn't come with
Synaptic pre-installed.

Some older versions of Ubuntu have a different name of that package,
and I think a few fonts were missing as well.



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

> --- On Sun, 22/7/12, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Sunday, 22 July, 2012, 6:04
>
> 2012/7/21 Anthony Easthope <antisocky@myopera.com>:
> > Hi
> >
> > I was wondering what would be considered the core fonts on Microsoft.
> > After  ages fruitless searching I was wondering if anybody could help me
> > on what they would consider to be core fonts.
> > I backed up my fonts folder from windows 7 before the change to ubuntu
> > so I had all of them problem is I can not be bothered installing every
> > single one of them!
>
> The quickest way, if you want to install those mss TTF core fonts from
> the repositories, is from a terminal. Just copy this line into a
> terminal and hit Enter. Note that the keyboard shortcut for Paste is
> Ctrl+Shift+v, if you didn't edit those yourself:
>
> sudo apt-get install ms-corefonts-installer
>
> The package contains:
> Andale
> Arial Black
> Arial
> Comic Sans
> Courier New
> Georgia
> Impact
> Times New Roman
> Trebuchet
> Verdana
> Webdings
>
> If you only want to use Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, it's
> recommended that you use the free fonts from the package
> fonts-liberation instead (probably already installed on your system.
> Those are called something like Liberation Sans (looks like Arial) and
> so on.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>
>
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