Hello,
I was looking on the OM repos for something similar to the ttf-mscorefonts-installer on ubuntu or fetchmsttfonts on OpenSUSE to no avail, and since the forum entry:
Shares an invalid link to opensuse’s repos and it is performed on OM 4.2. without further explanation of HOW-TO. I think it would be useful for starters to have a simple explanation of how to install this. This is basically my “workaround” for this. I used the fedora mscorefonts2 installer i found on Fedora Forums: How to install MS Fonts? - Fedora Discussion
- Go to the following link: https://mscorefonts2.sourceforge.net/
- there you can find what the package is gonna install as well as the commands to text on the terminal. A clean install of OM (ROME 26.02 in my case) does not include the following dependencies or have different names:
- cabextract, which is actually available on OM repos
xorg-x11-font-utilswhich could be similar tox11-font-utilwhich is available on OM repos
- The installation will still fail even after installing the dependencies because
x11-font-utilis not named asxorg-x11-font-utils, so the available solution for this is just skip dependencies AND package digest. Use the command:sudo rpm -i --nodeps --nodigest https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm - it will install normally.
- Check libreoffice or any program that uses fonts and make sure you can use fonts like verdana, Comic sans MS, Arial…
I’m sure this procedure could work with the OpenSUSE equal fetchmsttfonts package, but it did not test it and might require other set of dependencies. The best solution would be to build a package of fonts specifically for OM, but i am not proficient enough to build packages yet.
Best regards,