Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0
As you may have noticed currently there is no package in the openSUSE 11.0 update repo to install Microsoft fonts during your openSUSE 11.0 installation. As we have learned that sometimes you just need fonts like Times New Roman and many others that are provided from Microsoft.
So, are you here because you wanted to find out how to install the said fonts. So here’s what we’ll do.
First lets install cabextract:
sudo zypper in cabextract
Run the following commands:
chmod a+x fetchmsttfonts.sh
sudo sh fetchmsttfonts.sh
As you will see, you are just downloading the 10.3 script that did the installation and I have tested and verified that it works on 11.0.
I guess it’s about time to compile a “What to do after you install openSUSE 11.0″ blog or Wiki, if you think that’d be helpful please leave a comment or email me
Note: If the first time it says it fails to extract, just run it a second time.
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An alternative is to use liberation-fonts (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts)
Thanks, this tutorial really helped. Now, is there any simple way to install other fonts on my local hard drive?
Hi.. I have a doubt.
In the font configuration panel.. there are two options:
1) Use anti-aliasing
2) Force fonts DPI.
Could explain me little about theses.. when should I use them ?
Thanks
“What to do after you install 11.0″ would DEFINITELY be helpful!
I probably should’ve checked first to see if you HAD in fact made one, which, in fact, you have. Nice.
Dear Ben
Simply thank you very much!
Best regards,
Patrice, a French OpenSuse user since 1995,
just installing 11.0 fom srcatch!
Thanks for the post. I found it quite useful. Did not you think on posting it in OpenSUSE-Wiki?
This script is available in the 11.0 Updates repo. AFAIK when YaST installs it, the script is also executed.
On openSUSE 11.0, just install fetchmsttfonts on YaST…
YaST will download and extract otomaticaly font on any server…
Hi Ben,
perfect. Thanks. I just setup my new notebook with openSuse 11 (I had a CD lying around …) and was wondering where these MS fonts can be found … Google -> hit your blog !
Greetings from Germany
Tony
На Ваш блог знакомый в аську ссылку кинул. Оказалось ,что не зря
Понравилось. Тепрь постоянно читать буду 
Thanks a million for this one- worked like a charm! Been using Ubuntu for years so still kinda new to this openSUSE thang, but I likes it! God bless!
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