Package managers, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Hi :)
It doesn't matter which package manager you use.  They all keep track of anything done in any of 
the others by keeping 1 central database of what is on your system which each package manager then 
uses and just presents the information differently.  Possibly dpkg is a little different.  There's 
always 1 that has to be different!  Lol

The apt-get instruction was: 

sudo apt-get install synaptic

but i tend to prefer a gui front-end such as the software center.  
Regards from
Tom :)  



--- On Sat, 21/7/12, Anthony Easthope <antisocky@myopera.com> wrote:

From: Anthony Easthope <antisocky@myopera.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 21 July, 2012, 22:41

Synaptics package manager is available from the software center or is
there a suitable "sudo get-apt install" code?

on the amount of fonts you have that's insane! that must be close to
10gb worth of them!

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, at 05:36 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> Each version of Windows had a different set of "core" fonts.  I am a 
> "font person" so I should know this.  I have over 100,000 of them in my 
> collection.
>
> Do you want to install the core fonts on  you Ubuntu system?  I run both 
> 10.04 and 12.04.
>
> If you go to the Synaptic Package Manager and type in "ms core fonts", 
> you get something like
>
> "ttf-mscorefonts-installer"
>
> That is what shows on my 10.04 system I use as my default one, which I 
> am typing from here.
>
> Install that and you get the "core" fonts that seem to be used by most 
> of the Windows versions from XP to Win7.  Since I tend to have 200+ 
> fonts installed on both my Windows and Ubuntu systems, I have lost track 
> of the names of the current "core fonts".  There are references to them 
> in lists, along with the core fonts for MacOSX, but you do not need to 
> know those names and matching fonts between systems unless you do some 
> font choosing in a web site's CSS theme.  I use to do that.
>
> SO,
> if you want to have your Ubuntu system include the "core" fonts that MS 
> thinks you need, then install that "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" package.  
> It is all you may need as far as MS is concerned.  BUT, if you really 
> need some decorative fonts of specialty ones, I may have most of the 
> free ones that were available as of 2-3 years back.  I really have not 
> looked for many new ones lately.
>
>
>
> On 07/21/2012 05:23 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote:
> > 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!
> >    
>
>
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