I can't install the Microsoft true type core fonts via YOU in suse 9.2. I tryied in 2 machines already and some different suse mirrors. It downloads the fetchmsttfonts.sh which in turn is only a script that downloads the actual fonts when executed, if I understood. But when the script tries to download the actual fonts, it keeps trying forever. It

Hello: Probably the script can't find the fonts at the places specified in the script. Try to download the fonts manually from a site that is included in the script (eg belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32. exe etc.). Then use the script below to install the locally downloaded files. Replace 'path-to-the-fonts' with the path to the downloaded fonts in the script. This is the fetchmsttfonts.sh but I modified it for installing the fonts from the local hard disc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh FONTS=" \ path-to-the-fonts/andale32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/arial32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/arialb32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/comic32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/courie32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/georgi32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/impact32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/times32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/trebuc32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/verdan32.exe \ path-to-the-fonts/webdin32.exe \ " CURL_OPTIONS="-s" if [ "`id -u`" != "0" ]; then echo "error: You must be root to use this program!" exit 1 fi if [ ! -x /usr/bin/cabextract ]; then echo "error: cabextract missing! Please install package cabextract first." exit 0 fi . /etc/sysconfig/proxy if test "$PROXY_ENABLED" != "no"; then if test -n "$HTTP_PROXY" ; then export http_proxy="$HTTP_PROXY" fi fi if [ -z $http_proxy ]; then echo echo "note: No proxy is used. Please set the environment variable \"http_proxy\"" echo "note: to your favorite proxy, if you want to use a proxy for the download." echo "note:" echo "note: bash: export http_proxy=\"http://proxy.provider.de:3128/ \"" echo "note: tcsh: setenv http_proxy \"http://proxy.provider.de:3128/ \"" fi tmpname=`basename $0` tmpdir=`mktemp -d /tmp/$tmpname.XXXXXX` if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "$0: Can't create temp dir, exiting..." exit 1 fi pushd $tmpdir &> /dev/null for font in $FONTS; do for i in home; do archive=file:///$i/$font file=`echo $archive|awk -F "/" '{print $NF}'` rm -f $file echo "$file:" echo -n " Fetching ... " curl $CURL_OPTIONS -o $file $archive if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then rm -f $file echo "failed ... deleted!" continue fi echo done echo -n " Extracting ... " cabextract -l $file &> /dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then rm -f $file echo "failed ... deleted!" else cabextract $file &> /dev/null echo "done" success=true break fi rm -f $file done done if [ "x$success" != "x" ]; then for i in *.[Tt][Tt][CFcf]; do lower=`echo $i|tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` test "$i" != "$lower" && mv $i $lower done chmod 644 *.tt[cf] mv -f *.tt[cf] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype /usr/sbin/fonts-config echo "*** Fonts installed. ***" else echo "*** No Fonts installed. ***" fi popd &> /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also make sure that the script is in unix format. Check with 'cat -v fetchmsttfonts.sh'. It must not have ^M characters at the ends of lines. You may have to set executable permission too. Hope this helps, IG