[clug-talk] Replacement Fonts for MS Core Fonts

[Gustin Johnson]

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It's not in the dapper or edgy repositories.  You should be able to
fetch it directly from red hat and install it manually.

sgrover wrote:
> Did you do an apt-get update?  I'm using the usual repositories for 
> Fiesty (Kubuntu).  Let me know if you don't see it after an update...
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 
> Alastair Preston wrote:
>> On 18 May, 2007, sgrover wrote:
>>> Hey ya'll.
>>>
>>> RedHat has released some fonts that can safely replace the MS core fonts
>>> (Arial, Courier, and Times) - these fonts have the same horizontal
>>> space.  They call them the Liberation typefaces.
>>>
>>> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/16/1318240
>>> https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
>>>
>>> So I thought I'd do a quick check to see if they were available in the
>>> Ubuntu repositories yet.  Yep, they're there.  Just do an
>>>
>>> apt-get install ttf-liberation
>>>
>>> and you're all set.
>>>
>>> Shawn
>>>
>> Hmmm... I get :
>>
>> alastair at XXXX:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-liberation
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Couldn't find package ttf-liberation
>>
>> I have main, contrib, universe, multiverse and other repositories enabled; 
>> which repository is it in?
>>
>> Alastair
>>
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