[SOLVED] TRICK: how to see windows specific fonts on your webpages

[arnieboy]

This is a small trick that will make some webpages on your browsers appear as smooth and well aligned as they do on windows .

go to terminal and type

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

thats it! look at the remarkable difference in your browser after you install this windows font package. For example check out www.rediff.com before and after you install the above package.

[seven]

ah, thanks.
but there are a few HOWTOS about this in the forum allready

[arnieboy]

doesnt matter! sometimes u wud want to share your words of wisdom irrespective of whether they have already been spoken. They will invariably be taken notice of and will be appreciated.

[punkinside]

Package msttcorefonts is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package msttcorefonts has no installation candidate


what rep is it in!?

[23meg]

it's in universe.

[flightcrank]

it's in universe.
i get the same issue as punkinside, and i hae the universe repo

[arnieboy]

please make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list looks like the one below if u are using hoary. These contain almost all repositories u need for hoary. add whatever u feel is missing.

#START

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat stable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main
## deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat testing main

deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

#END

[Nis]

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat stable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main
## deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat testing main

Be careful when using Marillat. Without proper pinning you can seriously screw up your system. Most things in Marillat are in Ubuntu backports anyway so the usefullness of Marillat on Ubuntu is decreasing.

[cuoog]

has anyone else installed msttcorefonts and had it break java? all java applets just sort of sit there and dont open, just showing the java logo. was working fine before this. This is with sun java 1.4.2, btw, i'm gonna try upgrading to 1.5. any ideas on what might of caused this and how to fix it?

much appreciated...

db

[dikki]

I didn't have any problems with java after installing msttcorefonts. Btw I use 1.5.03, but I don't think 1.4.2 would be wrong, neither.

[CzarDerivative]

it's in universe.

Actually, the msttcorefonts package is in multiverse.