Installing Microsoft ttf fonts on Ubuntu

I want to install a Microsoft Vista TTF font (lets say Consolas), on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

How do I go about doing that?

therefromhere

Posted 2009-07-18T12:19:55.430

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– therefromhere – 2011-02-06T10:38:33.043

Answers

This article explains how to install the Microsoft fonts on Ubuntu step by step. It's part of the Universe repository.

This article explain how to install the Vista fonts which includes Consolas on Ubuntu. You need to extract the fonts from the Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer.

BinaryMisfit

Posted 2009-07-18T12:19:55.430

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1Extracting those fonts from the MS Powerpoint Viewer is probably illegal though... – JanC – 2010-08-28T12:32:44.200

If you've got a Windows machine handy (IANAL but I think you need a Vista licence in order to legally use the Consolas font), copy the file somewhere convenient.

Then in a terminal:

sudo cp *.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts
cd /usr/local/share/fonts
sudo chown root:root *.ttf
sudo fc-cache

therefromhere

Posted 2009-07-18T12:19:55.430

Reputation: 7 294

Doesn't work. No changes in ST3 – Green – 2018-01-20T12:54:51.993

19IANAL wins the award for "most visually jarring acronym" every time. – Telemachus – 2009-07-18T12:49:23.603

+1 to therefromhere for straightforward response, and +1 to Telemachus for pointing out the visual connection vis-a-vis Freudian subtlety with the acronym used. – Avery Payne – 2009-07-18T14:57:52.443

If you have a Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 license, you can also legally use Consolas: http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=22E69AE4-7E40-4807-8A86-B3D36FAB68D3&displaylang=en

– Michael Stum – 2009-07-20T09:56:03.820

Check out this script.

winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries...

Kirill V. Lyadvinsky

Posted 2009-07-18T12:19:55.430

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