{"id":3108,"date":"2017-01-24T21:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azfar.my\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T01:48:20","slug":"microsoft-fonts-on-debianubuntulinux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/2017\/01\/microsoft-fonts-on-debianubuntulinux.php","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fonts on debian\/ubuntu\/linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;sup<\/p>\n<p>every now and then, i like to use linux when i&#8217;m doing some work. i even do a dual boot ubuntu on my macbook pro. because, why not?<\/p>\n<p>spend a couple of days customizing my ubuntu on mbp. now, whats missing is some microsoft fonts, primarily calibri, verdana and tahoma.<\/p>\n<p>verdana, trebuchet installation is quite simple. download\/install ttf-mscorefonts-installer from package manager or download the .deb from <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.debian.org\/debian\/pool\/contrib\/m\/msttcorefonts\/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and dpkg -i that shit.<\/p>\n<p>calibri and tahoma, well&#8230;you need to do a bit of work. make sure the package cabextract is already installed.<\/p>\n<p>for tahoma, download <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/corefonts\/files\/OldFiles\/IELPKTH.CAB\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IELPKTH.CAB here<\/a> and move that file to \/root<\/p>\n<p>open up terminal and su root<\/p>\n<p><code>mkdir \/usr\/share\/fonts\/winfont<br \/>\ncabextract -F '*.ttf' -d \/usr\/share\/fonts\/winfont IELPKTH.CAB<\/code><\/p>\n<p>for calibri and other related fonts, download <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/mscorefonts2\/files\/cabs\/PowerPointViewer.exe\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerPointViewer.exe here<\/a> and move that file to \/root<\/p>\n<p>open up terminal and su root<\/p>\n<p><code>cabextract -F ppviewer.cab PowerPointViewer.exe<br \/>\ncabextract -F '*.TT?' -d \/usr\/share\/fonts\/winfont ppviewer.cab<br \/>\nfc-cache -fv<\/code><\/p>\n<p>enjoy your microsoft fonts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;sup every now and then, i like to use linux when i&#8217;m doing some work. i even do a dual boot ubuntu on my macbook pro. because, why not? spend a couple of days customizing my ubuntu on mbp. now, whats missing is some microsoft fonts, primarily calibri, verdana and tahoma. verdana, trebuchet installation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azfar.my\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}