Installing Microsoft's TrueType core fonts in Slackware

r_jensen11 · 08-13-2004, 04:51 PM

Okay, so I'm trying to install WineX's CVS, since I'm cheap. I figure out how to use regapi and fix the regestry problems since they didn't get solved when I installed WineX. Now, however, whenever I try to run an autorun program from CD's or the install program, it complains:

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rob@4300:/mnt/cdrom2$ wine autorun.exe
err:font:Fontconfig_Init Fontconfig support was not compiled in at compile time.err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/home/wine/c/windows/Fonts"
err:font:FTAlias_FindBestBuiltins Could not create alias for serif fonts
Unable to find a sufficient number of fonts available to FreeType.
        FreeType will not be loaded as a result.
FreeType could not be loaded.
        This is not necessarily a fatal error, however some
        applications require FreeType to be installed and
        may not function or display text correctly otherwise.
        Please consult the WineX Font FAQ for more details
        about this problem

So I find this page: ttp://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=601&forum=10
and that page tells me to install Microsoft's TrueType core fonts from this page:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

The only problem right now, is that when I try to issue the command

Code:

rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-1.3-4.spec

I get this error:
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rob@4300:~$ rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-1.3-4.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
/usr/bin/ttmkfdir is needed by msttcorefonts-1.3-4
wget is needed by msttcorefonts-1.3-4
cabextract is needed by msttcorefonts-1.3-4

Code:

when I use whereis for wget I get:
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rob@4300:~$ whereis wget
wget: /usr/bin/wget /usr/man/man1/wget.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz

and whereis cabextract gives me this:

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rob@4300:~$ whereis cabextract
cabextract: /usr/bin/cabextract /usr/man/man1/cabextract.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/cabextract.1.gz

Any help? I'd really like to get the CVS version of WineX working. I had Wine working before, compiled from source, and it wasn't this big of a hassle to get going, and it even included things like Notepad and the like! If anyone could help me out, it'd be greatly appreciated.

gbonvehi · 08-13-2004, 05:27 PM

Slackware isn't rpm based, so things like cabextract aren't in rpm database that's in slackware.
From the page you posted: "If you don't have a rpm based distribution, you can compile the tool to extract the .ttf files from the .exe files, cabextract from source, found here" Here takes to: http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3

So if you already have cabextract skip that step. Tell rpm to ignore dependencies (i don't remember the option right now).

I was looking at the .spec file, you probably don't even have to make it using rpm, you can look at it and see what it does, it's not difficult.

Cedrik · 08-13-2004, 05:29 PM

did you try rpmbuild with --nodeps switch ?

Shade · 08-13-2004, 05:43 PM

All I had to do was install them like normal fonts, after I decompressed them with cabextract.

For example.. Extract them and put all of them in ~/.fonts/ms/
Then run

mkfontdir .
mkfontscale .
fc-cache -vv .
from within that directory.

--Shade

r_jensen11 · 09-12-2004, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shade
All I had to do was install them like normal fonts, after I decompressed them with cabextract.

For example.. Extract them and put all of them in ~/.fonts/ms/
Then run

mkfontdir .
mkfontscale .
fc-cache -vv .
from within that directory.

--Shade

Okay, that works for a per-user basis, but is there a way to install them in a system-wide way? I don't want to have to do that for all of the family members (I made an account for each one of them)