installing msttcorefonts on ubuntu

Solution 1:

This seems to have changed in karmic. There is no package msttcorefonts anymore.

Use the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer from the Multiverse repository instead.

How to enable the Mutliverse repository see here.

Then install with:

   sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Technically speaking the package doesn't contain the fonts, but rather automatically downloads and installs them - hence the name change.

Solution 2:

Update for year 2015:

Add this to (or uncomment in) /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse

Then run this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

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Solution 3:

Enabling the multiverse (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu) and then installing with msttcorefonts worked for me:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

ttf-mscorefonts-installer isn't in the multiverse either