When installing OpenSUSE 11.4 32 bits (NET-installation) no MS True Type Fonts were installed during the additional online update. They weren’t just there. So for instance LibreOffice is unusable for me. How do I still get them? Thanks for your help in advance.
When installing OpenSUSE 11.4 32 bits (NET-installation) no MS True Type Fonts were installed during the additional online update. They weren't just there. So for instance LibreOffice is unusable for me. How do I still get them? Thanks for your help in advance.
Are you dual booting with Windows or have access to a Windows machine? In a dual boot setup and if you have mounted the Windows NTFS partition, then in KDE:
menu / Personnel Settings / System Administration Grouping / Font Installer / Press Add and navigate to /Windows/C/Windows/fonts and add as many fonts from Windows as you like. It would seem that you must enter the root user password for every single font you install, so make it easy on yourself. You then can specify if these fonts belong to the system or just you as a single user. I normally say system, but it only matters if this is a multiuser machine.
I just checked the Font folder in Windows 7 and it is about 385 MB is size, meaning you could make a data disk and copy these fonts to a CD and install them from a CD in openSUSE if you were not dual booting with Windows. As for the Microsoft fonts, the clue word here is Microsoft’s fonts. You normally must buy Windows to get those fonts and they don’t normally come with a free copy of openSUSE. Now I did not say you can’t find True Type fonts anywhere, but openSUSE does not come with the ones that normally come with Windows.
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Hi,
If i am not mistaken, there is a package named fetchmsttcorefonts , i am sorry, i am not on my computer right now to give you an exact answer, but i think this is the package u need.
Hope i helped,
It is there now
Wasn’t earlier
On 03/14/2011 02:36 AM, wfranssen wrote:
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> When installing OpenSUSE 11.4 32 bits (NET-installation) no MS True Type
> Fonts were installed during the additional online update. They weren’t
> just there. So for instance LibreOffice is unusable for me. How do I
> still get them? Thanks for your help in advance.
do you have the update repo enabled and refreshed?
i ask, because i was thinking the first time you connect to it the
package named ‘fetchmsttfonts’ is checked for install by default, and
they automatically flow to your system and are “just there”…
if it was not, then either you unchecked them for install OR something
is wrong with your install media…
try a search in YaST for fetchmsttfonts, it should be there (if you
are subscribed to update)
let us know how you get on…
now, of course that won’t give you every ms true type font, just the
ones they released as freeware
<http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:TrueType>…the friend from Austin has
already told you how to ‘borrow’ others (that you have paid for) for
use in openSUSE…
additionally, there are other free true type font available via yast
(just search on ‘truetype’)…
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DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
msfonts
has not been fetched automatically for me in 11.4
This is different from 11.3
I don’t want them anyway
no MS True Type
Thanks to all of you. I do have a dual boot with Windows and I know the option of installing the ms fonts via KDE system properties. After installation the suse/update/repo was refreshed. But I considered it weird not having a automatically install of the ms true type fonts. Well, now I did install the package fetchmsttfonts and everything is fine now. And I leraned something that can be handy to me in the future. Again: thanks.
On 03/15/2011 04:36 AM, wfranssen wrote:
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> Well, now I did install the package fetchmsttfonts and everything is
> fine now. And I leraned something that can be handy to me in the future.
> Again: thanks.
i noticed that someone said (after i posted mine above) in a different
forum something like “fetchmsttfonts is there now” like maybe it got
lost for a while in the recently completed shuffle of stuff in
packman…(or update, i don’t remember)
anyway, happy you got what you need…and, hope all will receive the
free fonts automatically…
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DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
I found the package “fetchmsttfonts” from the openSUSE Update repo when using Yast>Software>Online Update or Software Management, as Kpackagekit’s updater applet is broken here since the first 11.4 update. It successfully downloads and installs the core MS TT fonts.
This is not packman related, other than Kpackagekit was dealing with packman updates when it broke.
On 03/15/2011 11:36 AM, consused wrote:
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> Kpackagekit’s updater applet is broken
>
see, there is another thing (stuck in 11.3 by choice) i didn’t even
know ‘they’ had “innovated” openSUSE into Kpackagekit…
i may never go to 11.4 if it is not possible to use the most reliable
part of openSUSE–YaST
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DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Err did my post say you cannot use YaST? No.
I assume Kpackagekit came with KDE and openSUSE left it in. The updater applet (part of or driven by Kpackagekit) is affected by the problem I and others had.
YaST continues to work well in 11.4, and it was the YaST Software tools I mentioned that worked for “fetchmsttfonts” along with every additional repo and packages installed so far. 
On 03/15/2011 05:06 PM, consused wrote:
> Err did my post say you cannot use YaST? No.
no, you didn’t…and, i’m happy to hear it is still available…
> I assume Kpackagekit came with KDE and openSUSE left it in.
so now i guess we need to learn how to remove or repair it (like we
did beagle, pulseaudio, user/root single password, auto-login and
other broken defaults)
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DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Contrary to user Consused, I did not find fetchmsttcorefonts in the openSUSE 11.4 Update repo, nor in the other three “standard” repo’s. Has something been changed again?
On 03/16/2011 10:36 AM, hws38 wrote:
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> Contrary to user Consused, I did not find fetchmsttcorefonts in the
> openSUSE 11.4 Update repo, nor in the other three “standard” repo’s. Has
> something been changed again?
he wrote “fetchmsttfonts”
i wrote “fetchmsttfonts”
you wrote “fetchmsttcorefonts”
two of those three is there, one is not…
details details…
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DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
DenverD, thank you for pointing out my mistake. The reasonfor it: I simply copied the name from postings 3 and 4 in this thread.
I want the MS Core Font Tahoma because it, along with a few others, is the only MS font that has no equal among the other fonts either native or easily obtained in OpenSUSE. I found a package that loaded it, but in the course of adding some other repos to further improve my fonts and fond rendering I think I accidentally changed vendors or made some other error which deleted Tahoma. Instead, I ended up with a bunch of really funky fonts which I have no use for whatsoever.
This is the danger with having too many repos and one-click installs. While I have been a Linux user for a good while (mostly Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora) I have been away for awhile and I am not used to this concept of vendor change. As a result I lost an optimal setup because I got a little greedy. But then, with Linux we live and learn.
What I have found is that sometimes it is necessary to add another repo - like nVidia (for the proprietary driver) and KDE Updates (to get the latest Amarok) but after you get what you need it is best to delete them and use the standard 4 only. (Main update, OSS, Non-OSS and Packman) I added a couple like Muzlocker and the Subpixel rendering repo (from OpenSuse Community) and now I’ve made so many changes it is hard to go back.
Anyway … back to my original point. Does anyone know what repo might contain the MS Tahoma font? I could go and copy it from my Windows 7 machine I suppose, but I found it once and the mystery is now killing me.
Anyway … back to my original point. Does anyone know what repo might contain the MS Tahoma font? I could go and copy it from my Windows 7 machine I suppose, but I found it once and the mystery is now killing me.
Will this do?
Does any of you have Apper instead of Kpackagekit ?
Psquared: no repo has the font/s. The repo gives you a script a.k.a fetchmsttfonts that will fetch the fonts from sourceforge servers and install them for you in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. If you want i can send you an archive with them just give me a PM if you need help.