With this guide 4 Steps How to Install Microsoft Fonts in Linux you can install any Microsoft Windows fonts in Linux. If you love Microsoft font such as Times New Roman, Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and other popular Microsoft fonts you can install them on Linux.
Ubuntu and other Linux distributions actually include Red Hat’s “Liberation Fonts” and use them by default in their office suites. These fonts were designed to substitute for Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman, and Courier New.
They have the same widths as Microsoft’s popular fonts. If you open a document written with Times New Roman, the appropriate Liberation font will be used instead so the flow of the document won’t be interrupted. However, these fonts don’t look identical to Microsoft’s fonts.
When your friend create a .docx Microsoft document, the default font is Calibri and if you open it on Linux with Libre Office then the font will be changed into Liberation Serif if you don't install Microsoft fonts.
![Install Install](http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/uploads/2/1/1/5/21152474/microsoft-text-font-installer_orig.png)
Ubuntu and other Linux distributions actually include Red Hat’s “Liberation Fonts” and use them by default in their office suites. These fonts were designed to substitute for Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman, and Courier New.
Jun 29, 2007 - A user of the Linux Mint forum demonstrates the two-step process of installing Microsoft Fonts. What are these 'Microsoft fonts?' A little known.
They have the same widths as Microsoft’s popular fonts. If you open a document written with Times New Roman, the appropriate Liberation font will be used instead so the flow of the document won’t be interrupted. However, these fonts don’t look identical to Microsoft’s fonts.
When your friend create a .docx Microsoft document, the default font is Calibri and if you open it on Linux with Libre Office then the font will be changed into Liberation Serif if you don't install Microsoft fonts.
4 Steps How to Install Microsoft Fonts in Linux Mint / Ubuntu
Install Microsoft fonts in Linux by following these steps :![Install Install](http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/uploads/2/1/1/5/21152474/microsoft-text-font-installer_orig.png)
- Open Software Manager or Software Center
- Enter password when prompted
- Search the fonts by typing 'font' (without quote and then install
- Install any Microsoft font provided. You're done!
4 Steps How to Install Microsoft Fonts in Linux |
Easy Way How to Install Microsoft Fonts in Linux
We will give give you a method that can be easily implemented. To install Microsoft fonts in Linux -the most easy way is :- Borrow your Windows computer of your friend
- Locate to Windows font here c:WindowsFonts
- Copy the folder 'Fonts' to copy all of installed Microsoft Windows font. You can change the folder name
- Now back to your Linux computer
- Open file manager, open it as root
- Go to /usr/share/fonts/ and Paste the 'Fonts' folder containing Windows fonts here
- You're done
- If your folder 'Fonts' restricted to use for you because of your user level, modify the read and write folder by typing sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/share/fonts/... chnage the '...' with the name of your copied font folderin the terminal.
- You can also download the font file from the internet and install with the same method.
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News
- 120909 Ouch, that was a few years. Due to the kind contributions of Deven T. Corzine we now have an updated (and working!) package again.
- 060430 A long awaited overhaul. Many things are fixed, links updated. Selects a random mirror. Uses tahoma from word 97 viewer instead of the ie6 update so no windows license is needed.
- 030331 Updated the package to match the new location of the Tahoma cab file on microsoft's download site
- 021108 Added link to suse adaption of the .spec file
- 021107 Updated the Tahoma font link, as Microsoft moved their file
- 021026 Removed the python hack as it rarlely needed anyway. That means that only the spec file is interesting nowdays. Updated misc other things as well.
- 021026 It seems like this page got linked. First The Register, then that article was linked from slashdot.
- 020827 A friendly soul over at Microsoft informed me that the Tahoma font was never a part of the 'core fonts for the web' initiative and has unclear licensing, so I've removed it
- 020815 Microsoft pulls their fonts from their site. Fortunately, according to the End User License Agreement and the faq I have the right to redistribute the fonts in unaltered form. This right I intend to exercise.
- 020409 Installing doesn't work on 1.1-2. Fixed in 1.1-3
- 020312 Upgrading doesn't work on versions prior to 1.1-2. You will need to remove the old package with 'rpm -e' and than install the new one with 'rpm -i'.
- 020312 Version 1.1
- cabextract is now in a separate package, so no gcc toolchain is needed to follow the instructions
- The Tahoma font is included
Just the fonts
The original unaltered .exe files as downloaded from microsoft.com when they were available here
If you don't have a rpm based distribution, you can compile the tool to extract the .ttf files from the .exe files, cabextract from source, found here
How to install
Installing Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the web on any rpm based linux box with TrueType support is now easy. The instructions below have been tested on various Red Hat and Fedora Core systems, but they are fairly generic so they should apply to any redhat-like linux distribution, such as mandrake or yellowdog. If you are running debian, please have a look here. If you are running suse, please have a look here
- Make sure you have the following rpm-packages installed from from your favourite distribution. Any version should do.
- rpm-build
- wget
- A package that provides the ttmkfdir utility. For example
- For Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, ttmkfdir
- For old redhat releases, XFree86-font-utils
- For mandrake-8.2, freetype-tools
- Install the cabextract utility. For users of Fedora Core it is available from extras. Others may want to compile it themselves from source, or download the source rpm from fedora extras and rebuild.
- Download the latest msttcorefonts spec file from here
- If you haven't done so already, set up an rpm build environment in your home directory. You can to this by adding the line %_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild to your $HOME/.rpmmacros and create the directories $HOME/rpmbuild/BUILD and $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch
- Build the binary rpm with this command:This will download the fonts from a Sourcforge mirror (about 8 megs) and repackage them so that they can be easily installed.
- Install the newly built rpm using the following command (you will need to be root):
- You might need to reload the X font server. Normally this is done as a part of the installation process (this is done by chkfontpath). However in some situations it seems like you need to reload or restart the font server manually. I am told that the last argument needs to be restart and not reload on Mandrake 9.0A bug in RedHat 8.0 makes the X server lose the connection to the font server if the font server is restarted instead of reloaded. That will cause assorted strange behaviour (changed fonts in newly opened applications, applications hanging). Logging out and logging in again will solve the problems, or just use 'reload' instead of 'restart'.
- Enjoy your new high quality fonts. To verify that the installation succeeded, please use the command 'xlsfonts | grep ^-microsoft'. You should see a whole lot of microsoft font names there. Please note that you need to restart all programs that you want to make aware of the new fonts. Note also that not all fonts have 'microsoft' in their name, some of them will be from 'monotype' instead.
Features
- Does not distribute Microsoft's fonts in a prohibited way (to the best of my knowledge that is)
- Doesn't bypass the rpm database like other font install scripts