Howto: 3 Easy Install Steps of Microsoft Fonts in Fedora 8

There are nice fonts included with the default Fedora 8 X installation. Some people love it, others want more. If you are fond of using Microsoft fonts, here's a quick entry on how to have microsoft fonts installed from your Fedora 8 box.

Three easy steps on how to install Microsoft Fonts in Fedora 8.
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1. Install the needed package dependency:
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# yum -y install chkfontpath
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2. Install Microsoft core fonts rpm package for Fedora 8 directly like so:
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# rpm -ivh http://vertito.googlepages.com/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
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3. Close all your unsaved data and restart or reload your XFS like so
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# service xfs restart
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If you wish to do the long approach, simply follow the approach taken from my old post here.

HTH

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