How to install MS Fonts?

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I can not find how to install MS Fonts.

Any help? If possible, step to step for Fedora 42 Silverblue

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The packge you want is mscorefonts2.

Install supporting packages with sudo dnf install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig

Install the fonts with sudo rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm

Rebuild the font cache with sudo fc-cache -fv

Look for msttcorefont in the output from above, or check font-viewer if you’re on GNOME or System Settings → Text & Fonts → Font Management, if you’re on KDE.

Edited for regular Fedora. See @siosm posts for Silverblue/Kinoite.

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For a nice GUI solution, try Install Font Downloader on Linux | Flathub

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See MS Core Fonts on Silverblue - #8 by axels

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This will not work on Silverblue.

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OK, I tried to make a sysext for it but damned it’s not a straightforward one due to the EULA :frowning: .

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How to batch convert multiple .fon files (windows fonts) to linux fonts?

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.fon files are Windows bitmap fonts, so you can probably load them up in something like FontForge and export/save them as a bitmap format that Linux recognises. .bdf or .pcf I think are the two most common.