I have just spent a long and frustrating hour trying to install the Microsoft Core Fonts onto my Slackware desktop. For posterity, here is how I eventually acheived it:
- Download and install Alien, a program that converts many linux package formats to many others.
- Also, get alien-extra, which contains helper programs you'll need.
- Get the msttcorefonts package from the Debian repository.
- installpkg alien-extra, and build alien from source as advised in the INSTALL file.
- Say "alien --to-tgz msttcorefonts_1.2_all.deb", replacing version numbers as appropriate.
- "installpkg msttcorefonts-1.2.tgz" (no, I don't know why the filename changes, either)
- Finally, cd to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and run "update-ms-fonts" (the result of installing the debian package). Wait for the fonts to download, et voila!
Easy when you know how...
