The corefonts are “free” fonts produced by Microsoft. They include many fonts you are expected to have (such as Times New Roman).
On Debian/Ubuntu, you can install the package “ttf-mscorefonts-installer”. As the fonts themselves are not DFSG-free, you need get them separately.
On Debian, if you set your debconf priority low, then it’ll ask you where you want to download them from:
# DEBIAN_PRIORITY=low aptitude install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
You can leave all the questions blank, except for the one about the mirror. For that, enter
http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/packages/corefonts/
Then it should work.
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how do you install
how do you install msttcorefont on ubuntu using synaptic package manager?
You probably don't
Seriously, I don’t think there is any easy way to do it graphically. (unless you are off campus or have set up transparent proxying)
sudo vim
sudo vim /var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.postinst
Change the section starting with URLROOTS to read as follows: URLROOTS=”http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/packages/corefonts/”
Now you’ll be able to install it with Synaptic Package Manager