Display Microsoft fonts like on Windows

[calande]

This tutorial now has a web site: http://www.sharpfonts.com/

I tweaked the fontconfig XML files so that fonts look like on Windows. This code is borrowed from PC-BSD. First, let's install the Microsoft fonts. You have 2 ways of doing so:

Either download the fonts into your home directory and install them on your system:

sudo tar xvjpf msfonts.tbz -C /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

Or, enable non-free, universe and multiverse repositories and install the Microsoft fonts:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

You now have the Microsoft fonts installed. Let's configure your system now.

Download the xml files and extract the file into /etc/fonts/ as root:

sudo tar xvjpf fontconfig.tbz -C /etc/fonts/

Log out from Ubuntu and relog in. Here's how your desktop will look like:



It's a lot more complex than disabling antialiasing at small font sizes

DIGG IT!

[tep200377]

APt get didnt find the package ?!

[DC@DR]

That works perfectly nice, dude, thanks a lot

[tep200377]

brp@brp-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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

[newbie2]

brp@brp-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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

yep...that's also what i get

[digby]

APt get didnt find the package ?!

You have to enable the extra apt repositories first. From the OP:

Enable non-free, universe and multiverse repositories.

Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list has these lines.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse

If you find them and they have a '#' in front, you have to remove that. Then run

sudo apt-get update

Then you should be able to install the font package.

Edit: If you don't know how to edit your sources.list file, see here.

[petervk]

Do you have the universe and multiverse repo's enabled? Because that would give you a similar error. Try to enable the universe and multiverse and try that command again.

[tep200377]

I gotta say, I really love it when people help me out

Im a newbie on ubuntu. I've tried slackware and other distroes before, but ubuntu really made me make the switch ..

[newbie2]

You have to enable the extra apt repositories first. From the OP:Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list has these lines.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse

If you find them and they have a '#' in front, you have to remove that. Then run

sudo apt-get update

Then you should be able to install the font package.

Edit: If you don't know how to edit your sources.list file, see here.

i use dapper kubuntu and it works now ...thanx very much....

[lepre]

half-working for me, maybe it's because i did an other fix and them don't fit togheter?