On Wednesday 18 December 2002 12:26 pm, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Thanks to you who have replied to this msg. What I am trying to do is load msttcorefonts from corefonts.sourceforge, I have tried rpm -bb and rpm -ba but the only thing I end up with is a directory in /usr/src/packages/BUILD. I guess what I need to know is how to get this to load so that I have use of the fonts. David
does it the script http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html solve your needs ?
David, try the following and see if it makes your life a little easier. Let me know how it goes. For the unwashed newbies, like myself: I wrestled through this problem a couple of days ago by making a bunch of misteps/mistakes. So here are the right steps to take. This is for non command line junkies. Overview You will download and install the cabextract and ttmkfdir apps., then create a script file to download, extract and install the TrueType fonts. The script file will not be executable until the permissions are set correctly. When set, the script will be executed from a terminal window or shell window or whatever you wish to call it. As the script is executed it will ask you to answer some questions. After they are answered it will download and install the fonts. The steps are: 1. Download and install cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm . I found it at rpmfind by doing a google on cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm. 2. Make sure cabextract went into a directory in your path, e.g., /usr/bin 2a. Make sure ttmkfdir from the SuSE Distro has been installed. 3. Open kwrite or any other editor and save-as something, I used ttfontdnld and put it in my home directory. you can put it in /usr/bin or any other directory in your path if you want to be able to run it from anywhere. 4. Then go to http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html and copy the modified script in Paragraph 1. Only copy the text beginning with #!/bin/sh through /sbin/SuSEconfig --module fonts. 5. Paste that text into the file created in 3 above. 6. Save 7. Using Konqeror, right click on the file created in 3. go to properties and change permissions to enable Exec. Now bash will be able to execute that script. 8. Open a bash shell & go to superuser mode, type su and then your root password. 9. If you did not save the file created in step 3 to a directory in your path, cd to wherever you saved the file and type the name of that file. If it is in your path then simply type its name and hit enter. 10. Answer the questions. 11. When done you can either follow the steps in paragraph 2 in http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html.or simply open OpenOffice.org and see if they are there. I was lucky. On the Eleventeenth try the script worked putting the files where they belonged and that's all I had to do to get them working with OpenOffice.org. If, during the running of the script, you see the message : Extracting . . . failed . . . deleted. that means you probably dont have cabextract installed in a directory in your path. If you have any questions, email the message list so everyone else can see how bad my instructions are. I will try to clarify. Richard