Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0

**ra100** · 13-Jun-2008, 02:29

"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."

Ben Kevan’s Blog > Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0

**Lysdestic** · 16-Jun-2008, 02:44

Also, another possible method is if you have a windows install somewhere you can simply copy the fonts from there and install them using the KDE font manager. That is how I did it at least, it results in a lot of fonts, sure, but it is more complete too.

**GofBorg** · 16-Jun-2008, 09:33

> Also, another possible method is if you have a windows install somewhere
> you can simply copy the fonts from there and install them using the KDE
> font manager. That is how I did it at least, it results in a lot of
> fonts, sure, but it is more complete too.

Or you can ween yourself off the M$ addiction and use the supplied fonts.
Personally I think the DejaVu fonts are very nice and more than
adequate in most cases. Linux fonts didn't used to be so nice, but they
have come a long way.

**some-guy** · 16-Jun-2008, 10:23

I personally use DejaVu fonts for normal uses, but keep MS fonts for documents(.pdf, .doc, etc)

**Lysdestic** · 16-Jun-2008, 10:26

Maybe, but then again it may not be so much of a "M$" addiction, as a need to have certain web pages and chat sessions display correctly.

I use DejaVu for my main fonts, it is just nice to have the Microsoft fonts around too for the aforementioned purposes.

**doctorjohn2** · 18-Jun-2008, 20:46

Try this script

It works for 10.3

**Cryovac** · 18-Jun-2008, 21:02

Yeah, Ben Kevan’s blog method worked great. Thanks.

**stefan1975** · 19-Jun-2008, 02:33

why use mickeysoft fonts at all? they are not free-as-in-speech anyway. Personally I use redhat's Liberation fonts which are free and at least as good if not better then mst-core-fonts.

extra bonus is that they are in the standard repos as well:
liberation-fonts-0.1-86.1.noarch.rpm

# zypper install liberation-fonts

stefan

**doctorjohn2** · 19-Jun-2008, 02:39

Yes, I too use liberation fonts, they are on the Open SuSE DVD

**katanacb** · 19-Jun-2008, 13:21

Why use Microsoft fonts? For those of us who regularly look at Powerpoint slides, Word documents, and certain webpages, they *only* render correctly if you have the standard microsoft fonts installed.

So, for some of us they are definitely a necessity.