Re: (Solved)Re: Installing msttcorefonts without a (working) internet connection

2015-07-05 Thread mudongliang
hould then put them in e.g. /usr/local/share/corefonts and then >> you can tell the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package where to find >> those fonts (as root, before installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer): >> >> echo "ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/dldir string >>

(Solved)Re: Installing msttcorefonts without a (working) internet connection

2015-07-05 Thread mudongliang
gt; You can also do that from another computer where the download works > and transfer them e.g. via USB stick. > > You should then put them in e.g. /usr/local/share/corefonts and then > you can tell the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package where to find > those fonts (as root, before ins

Installing msttcorefonts without a (working) internet connection

2015-07-05 Thread Christian Seiler
and then you can tell the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package where to find those fonts (as root, before installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer): echo "ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/dldir string /usr/local/share/corefonts" | debconf-set-selections (replace the directory by the on

Re: failed to install msttcorefonts

2008-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Le Friday 14 November 2008 01:35:58 Bernard, vous avez écrit : > Hi to Everyone, > msttcorefonts This package exists to facilitate upgrades to ttf-mscorefonts-installer. It can safely be removed from your system Sorry for the personnal mail to bdebreil I clicked to fast -- To UNSUB

failed to install msttcorefonts

2008-11-13 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, On my desktop running under Debian Sarge, I had no problem installing 'msttecorefonts', which was done about 18 months ago. However, now, on my laptop under Etch, I can't get those fonts installed. Upon launching: #apt-get install msttcorefonts the install

Re: failure in installing msttcorefonts

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Wagner
Hello Bernard, If you wonder why noone gives you an answer, that's because of you are hijacking threads and it's possible, that the people who know the answer, don't read this thread anymore. So begin a new thread for a new question and don't click only "reply" in your mailprogram. Hth Michael -

failure in installing msttcorefonts

2008-11-12 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, On my desktop running under Debian Sarge, I had no problem installing 'msttecorefonts', which was done about 18 months ago. However, now, on my laptop under Etch, I can't get those fonts installed. Upon launching: #apt-get install msttcorefonts the install

Re: msttcorefonts, fc-cache and problems

2007-05-03 Thread Anton
> [snip] > > /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory > > /root/.fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory > > Are you *logged in* as root? > > > fc-cache: failed No... I just started the Xterm, become root (su) and then done the fc-cache. Oh, god! That was the key! Logged as r

Re: msttcorefonts, fc-cache and problems

2007-05-03 Thread Anton
[snip] > /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory > /root/.fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory Are you *logged in* as root? > fc-cache: failed No... I just started the Xterm, become root (su) and then done the fc-cache. -- engineer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: msttcorefonts, fc-cache and problems

2007-05-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/07 23:56, Anton wrote: > Hi. > [snip] > /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory > /root/.fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory Are you *logged in* as root? > fc-cache: failed - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA G

Re: msttcorefonts, fc-cache and problems

2007-05-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anton wrote: > Hi. > > I just installed etch system. Then I add the msttcorefonts package, > but these fonts are not appear. Just nothing changed. > > Then I tried to do the > # fc-cache -f -v > (it shows me many "fai

msttcorefonts, fc-cache and problems

2007-05-02 Thread Anton
Hi. I just installed etch system. Then I add the msttcorefonts package, but these fonts are not appear. Just nothing changed. Then I tried to do the # fc-cache -f -v (it shows me many "failed" messages, see below. New fonts are appear). But now I have big delays when I start any pro

Re: Can't install software due to problems of msttcorefonts!

2006-09-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/22/2006 10:35 AM, JerryKwok wrote: Whenever I install a software ,there's a problem with ms truetype fonts.I try to install msttcorefonts and it shows the following, [...] --23:22:52-- http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe => `./anda

Can't install software due to problems of msttcorefonts!

2006-09-22 Thread JerryKwok
Whenever I install a software ,there's a problem with ms truetype fonts.I try to install msttcorefonts and it shows the following, TimeNTide:/home/keenu# apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done msttcorefonts is already the newest versi

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:47:07 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 Apr 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:46:47 +0100 > > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 17 Apr 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote: [SNIP] > > > > What is the output of "fc-matc

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
entry > > > "/usr/share/fonts"? > > > > > > > No it doesn't. How can I make it do so? (you are not supposed to edit > > it directly, I think). > > That's right. You put customisations in /etc/fonts/local.conf. > > > > &g

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2006, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties. > >However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox. > > > >Any way to persuade this to

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
it do so? (you are not supposed to edit > it directly, I think). That's right. You put customisations in /etc/fonts/local.conf. > > > > Is the directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ populated? > > > > Yes > > > What is the output of "

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
ook into: > > Does the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf contain the entry > "/usr/share/fonts"? > No it doesn't. How can I make it do so? (you are not supposed to edit it directly, I think). > Is the directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ populated? > Yes

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Anthony Campbell wrote: I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties. However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox. Any way to persuade this to work? Anthony If the fonts are located in one of the standard locations, "fc-cache -f -s

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:06:52 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 Apr 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:01:25 +0700 > > "Ali Milis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: >

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible - SOLVED

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 17 Apr 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:01:25 +0700 > > "Ali Milis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I just reinstalled msttcorefonts

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:01:25 +0700 > "Ali Milis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg > > > difficulties. However

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:01:25 +0700 "Ali Milis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg > > difficulties. However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or > > in firefox. &g

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Ali Milis
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties. > However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox. (1) What is in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (2) Have you done "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" ? >

msttcorefonts installed but not visible

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties. However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox. Any way to persuade this to work? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.o

Re: Msttcorefonts Pkg:Error processing Msttcorefonts --configure

2004-04-17 Thread Chris Metzler
led against msttcorefonts about this, and that the discussion on that bug could be helpful to you. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become

Msttcorefonts Pkg:Error processing Msttcorefonts --configure

2004-04-17 Thread users
apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done msttcorefonts is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional

Re: anybody successfully installed msttcorefonts ???

2003-08-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
directory by themselves and then tell the msttcorefonts package the local location directly (during debconf,) you can successfully install the package. Kind of annoying, but it works. -- Scott Christopher Linnenbringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.eskimo.com/~sl/info.txt <[EMAI

anybody successfully installed msttcorefonts ???

2003-08-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
onnected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. Retrying. I am very curious how this type of deb package works. I have pored over the scripts in: /var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.* I cannot determine why this package tries to goto:

Re: no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Weir
t; i recently upgraded to gnome2 and things were fine except that my fonts > were smudgy. the font-HOWTO i was reading mentioned that certain apps > like netscape can do better rendering if they can access microsoft font > package. thats what i did. i found out from somewhere that the fo

Re: no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Hurt
font-HOWTO i was reading mentioned that certain apps like netscape can do better rendering if they can access microsoft font package. thats what i did. i found out from somewhere that the font package was called msttcorefonts and installed it with apt-get. debian configurator lead me through insta

no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-06 Thread praveen kallakuri
fonts were smudgy. the font-HOWTO i was reading mentioned that certain apps like netscape can do better rendering if they can access microsoft font package. thats what i did. i found out from somewhere that the font package was called msttcorefonts and installed it with apt-get. debian configurator le

Re: XF86Config-4 and msttcorefonts

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said: > Can someone that likes their font setup, and has msttcorefonts and XFree86 > 4.2.1 post their "Files" section of XF86Config-4? > > I finally took some time tonight to look at my fonts. One of my problems > was that man

XF86Config-4 and msttcorefonts

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Moseley
Can someone that likes their font setup, and has msttcorefonts and XFree86 4.2.1 post their "Files" section of XF86Config-4? I finally took some time tonight to look at my fonts. One of my problems was that many applications were using the "comic sans ms" font. Turned

msttcorefonts for ghostscript

2002-11-13 Thread Russell
Hi all, I downloaded and extracted msttcorefonts with cabextract as in: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.html However, to use them for ghostscript, they need to be converted with a perl script in: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x346.html The perl script won't work (giv

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Petr Vanek said: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> Right after Woody release, MS stopped serving these font on the net. > > is it too much to ask maintainer to update that package, or is it > against policies to make nonsecurity update in stable? i mean, can we > as

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Petr Vanek said: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Right after Woody release, MS stopped serving these font on the net. > > is it too much to ask maintainer to update that package, or is it > against policies to make nonsecurity upda

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Petr Vanek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Right after Woody release, MS stopped serving these font on the net. is it too much to ask maintainer to update that package, or is it against policies to make nonsecurity update in stable? i mean, can we ask, or is it nonsence? --

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:08:59AM +0100, Ben Thompson wrote: > I've installed the msttcorefonts package on my sarge system, but I can't > get it to work. I've used this package before on other systems, and it > works fine normally, but not on this system. The installer wo

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Michael West
I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their fonts. I get a 404 when trying to retrieve the fonts: --- apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be inst

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
The fonts are now hosted in various other spots (the licensing on the fonts allows them to be hosted elsewhere; Microsoft just shut down their server, they can't change the existing licensing). You need to get the msttcorefonts package from testing; that one

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:05AM -0700, Michael West wrote: > I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their > fonts. > I don't know if the package has been fixed, but you can still get the fonts from http://corefonts.sf.net/ -rob msg08778/pgp0.pgp Description

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 6:16 pm, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:05AM -0700, Michael West wrote: > > I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their > > fonts. > > I don't know if the package has been fixed, bu

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:08:59AM +0100, Ben Thompson wrote: > works fine normally, but not on this system. The installer works > fine, it downloads the packages and says ther are no problems, but I > don't see any fonts in Mozilla or anywhere else. Please could Yes, msttcore

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-23 Thread nate
Ben Thompson said: > I've installed the msttcorefonts package on my sarge system, but I can't > get it to work. I've used this package before on other systems, and it > works fine normally, but not on this system. The installer works fine, it > downloads the packages an

msttcorefonts

2002-10-23 Thread Ben Thompson
I've installed the msttcorefonts package on my sarge system, but I can't get it to work. I've used this package before on other systems, and it works fine normally, but not on this system. The installer works fine, it downloads the packages and says ther are no problems, but I don&

Re: msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread Preben Randhol
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/09/2002 (15:34) : > also sprach A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.22.1430 +0200]: > > I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, but > > the installation falis since the exe can not be found. > > Does anyone h

Re: msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread D.
 --- A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, > but > the installation falis since the exe can not be > found. > Does anyone have it by any chance and would be kind > enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate where I > can

Re: msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
A R wrote: > I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, but > the installation falis since the exe can not be found. > Does anyone have it by any chance and would be kind > enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate where I > can get it from?

Re: msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.22.1430 +0200]: > I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, but > the installation falis since the exe can not be found. > Does anyone have it by any chance and would be kind > enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate wh

msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread A R
I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, but the installation falis since the exe can not be found. Does anyone have it by any chance and would be kind enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate where I can get it from? Thanks, TR __ Do

Re: latest msttcorefonts broken?

2002-09-18 Thread DvB
Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 11:23 pm, DvB wrote: > > I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts > > package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the > > monotype-arial-iso8859-1 font

Re: latest msttcorefonts broken?

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 11:23 pm, DvB wrote: > I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts > package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the > monotype-arial-iso8859-1 fontset from that pack

Re: latest msttcorefonts broken?

2002-09-17 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just checked MS yesterday on this and they no longer offer this download. > Doing the upgrade may have deleted or renamed your old font package. > In any case this needs to be fixed in the packages that depend on it. According to http://bugs.debian.or

RE: latest msttcorefonts broken?

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Olds
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of DvB Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:24 PM To: Debian-User Subject: latest msttcorefonts broken? I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the

latest msttcorefonts broken?

2002-09-17 Thread DvB
I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the monotype-arial-iso8859-1 fontset from that package keeps printing the following error message over and over (but doesn't appear to be causing any

Re: Hinting msttcorefonts--any defoma experts?

2002-09-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi again, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [ late answer, I know ... ] > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Paul Smith wrote: > > > There've been bugs opened against the msttcorefonts package for quite a > > > while asking that it be defom

Re: Hinting msttcorefonts--any defoma experts?

2002-09-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [ late answer, I know ... ] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Paul Smith wrote: > > There've been bugs opened against the msttcorefonts package for quite a > > while asking that it be defoma-ized so that the system can actually use > &g

Re: msttcorefonts package and X fonts?

2001-07-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gr> Does anyone know of a workaround to incorporate those fonts into X gr> in the absence of defoma support in-package? I have already done gr> the following: gr> -ensured that the line gr> dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" This isn't the p

msttcorefonts package and X fonts?

2001-07-09 Thread Geoffrey Romer
I've been trying to get anti-aliased fonts working in X, and as part of that effort, I've installed the msttcorefonts package, containing a selection of handy TrueType fonts. Unfortunately, msttcorefonts doesn't use defoma (there's a bug open on that, tho), and consequently I