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    Unhappy msttcorefonts on standalone machine

    Is there any way to get msttcorefonts without having a local internet connection?

    The deb install requires an internet connection to do a wget from sourceforge.

    If I download the <font>.exe files on another machine, can I use them with the deb install or will it ignore them/try to overwrite them?

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    Smile Re: msttcorefonts on standalone machine

    OK So I looked further back in the search results and found this.
    (Thanks to jonathanjg who originaly posted it)
    msttcorefonts thread Page 2

    Incase anyone is interested. What I did was:

    It works on a standalone machine or a machine with too slow a modem (e.g. connexant with free linuxant driver!)

    Download all the *.exe font files from Source Forge corefonts page (see: 'the fonts') on your networked machine. (7.5M in total)

    Install msttcorefonts with no internet connection (partially fails)
    (needs cabextract, so you may need that installed first)
    I have UbuntuPlus installed - there may be other dependencies if you do not.

    Make a new directory /tmp/mstt
    Copy the *.exe font files into the /tmp/mstt directory.

    Run the script:
    Code:
    sudo /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts /tmp/mstt
    Delete the temporary directory

    Then to tidy up the install do:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
    Regards

    Soft Ground

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    Re: msttcorefonts on standalone machine

    Forgive me if I shouldn't be bumping an old thread, but this is still a problem and last night with no net access and my aptoncd attempt broken I was getting annoyed. Thanks for the help

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    Re: msttcorefonts on standalone machine

    I had no 'update-ms-fonts' in usr/sbin/
    help?

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