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I installed Ubuntu 5.10 on Thanksgiving and I’ve been in love ever since. Everything has been working great, but I have hit a couple bumps. Installing programs with apt has been amazing, but if it’s {not in the repository}, then you’re on your own. Plenty of people out there willing to help if you ask.

I couldn’t install msttcorefonts the way that it seems to work for everyone else. These are the Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts, the ones used commonly on the web (Arial, Times New Roman, etc). I didn’t have an urgent need for this package, but I decided to get it done for this site. I actually really like the default fonts on this distribution, but it makes things a little easier to have these fonts as well.

Anyway, in case you’d maybe like to know, too:

I tried to do a simple:

$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

But this resulted in an error saying the package may have been moved or changed.

I’ve been instructed to make sure that the Universe repositories were invoked, which they had been.

A Google search leads me to Debian’s site where you can download the .deb package for msttcorefonts. On trying to install this package it gave an error saying that it needs cabextract to be installed beforehand. Awesome.

Just to check:

$ sudo apt-get install cabextract

Installs cabextract without a problem. Also installs msttcorefonts along with it. Restarted Firefox and it works fine.

*Edit 2006-05-18*

When I first loaded up Ubuntu, I put forth the effort to install most of the stuff I wanted. Java, Azureus, Firefox, fonts and codecs, etc. When I installed Ubuntu for a second time, I used the Automatix script. You can pick and choose what you want and works great for K/Ubuntu (looks like only Breezy at the moment, I’m sure it will be ready for Dapper shorty after it’s release in early June). It did a better job at installing some things, as the sound in Flash movies was inconsistent before.