Install Windows fonts on ubuntu 8.10

Posted on Dec 3, 2008 in ubuntu | 0 comments

Even if we are using ubuntu linux, we sometimes want to use those good old windows fonts. To install the fonts, all you need to do in Ubuntu is to install the msttcorefonts package.

The Truetype Windows 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

To install use the Terminal and type the following command. Your Repositories must be updated to this successfully.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts that you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory.

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 by issuing the following command:

sudo fc-cache -fv