DebAWeek: msttcorefonts

This package downloads and installs the “Microsoft Core Fonts”. This is extremely useful for web developers but also beneficial to users since many websites are designed with these fonts in mind and specify them in their cascading stylesheets (css). So with these fonts installed more websites will be displayed as intended. The installation is simple: once the package is installed it downloads the fonts from the web and installs them into the system.

To install from a terminal simply type:

• sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

To install from a graphical package management program simply search for msttcorefonts and select it to be installed.

Here is some more information about the package:

This package allows for easy installation of the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts for the Web including:

Andale Mono
Arial Black
Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Comic Sans MS (Bold)
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings

You will need an Internet connection to download these fonts if you don’t already have them.