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msttcorefonts package

Microsoft fonts are not showing but installed in kubuntu 10.10

Asked by SWAGATAK GHOSH

actually I wanted to match between microsoft office files and open office files. so I wanted to install all themicrosoft fonts.so I run

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

after a long dowloading all the files successfully installed,but the fonts were not showing after that I install
 ttf-mscorefonts-installer

from packge manager,but the fonts are still not showing.

but again when i run

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

the output is
myname@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-restricted-extras is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.

and the ttf-mscorefonts is already installed.
what is the problem , why the fonts are not showing in Ooo

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=422770.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

First be sure there are no pending (not upgraded) packages

Open a terminal Applications→Accessories→Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

give your user password when requested, you don't see any chars when you type it, then press enter.

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SWAGATAK GHOSH (swagatak) said : 		#3

thank you macro ,,,after run as you said it downloaded some more packeges and they also installed successfully but the fonts are still not showingin Ooo.plz help me

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

please try from terminal:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Re-create the font cache:

fc-cache -f -v

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SWAGATAK GHOSH (swagatak) said : 		#6

macro i run as bellow and the outputs are

sukhendu@MAMON:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
sukhendu@MAMON:~$

sukhendu@MAMON:~$ fc-cache -f -v
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 3 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 6 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 9 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 15 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/takao: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai: caching, new cache contents: 54 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu: caching, new cache contents: 21 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-indic-fonts-core: caching, new cache contents: 17 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-kacst-one: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-khmeros-core: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lao: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-punjabi-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1/mathml: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/sukhendu/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/sukhendu/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
sukhendu@MAMON:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
sukhendu@MAMON:~$

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#7

You have 0 fonts into the msttcorefonts dir

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs

so please reboot your system then, from terminal, try to reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer, type:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

and/or reinstall the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

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SWAGATAK GHOSH (swagatak) said : 		#8

Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.