I installed wine and now I notice a different font on facebook and a couple of other sites I use a lot. So, how do I get back the default Ubuntu fonts?
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@potential answerers: I believe that wine has instlled some extra fonts, as a couple of font packages are recommended by wine. It's likely that liberation or mscorefonts are the culprights. But I don't really know of a good way to uninstall mscorefonts, so I hope that someone can give a good answer. If no ones does, I'll try mu best.– Javier RiveraFeb 9, 2011 at 17:34
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Thanks! I will wait for someone who can help me to fix the issue or else I will bug you :)– AshfameFeb 9, 2011 at 17:40
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Can you please include a screenshot so we know if what you're seeing is "wrong"?– Oli ♦Feb 9, 2011 at 18:58
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I see different fonts. There is no issue as such but I would like to revert back to previous ones– AshfameFeb 9, 2011 at 19:02
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More importantly, and also to add some keywords to this post, this will remove Arial and Comic. How dare they put that *§$% on my computer.– threeMay 1, 2014 at 9:35
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Installing wine will also push the "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" package which brings some aditional fonts.
You can remove it without removing wine, but it can negatively affect the look of some applications running from wine.
To remove it, open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
answered Feb 9, 2011 at 21:36
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That easy?. I was expecting that this command will only uninstall the installer. I suppose that it includes a uninstall script too. That's great :). Feb 10, 2011 at 8:03
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The package behaves as a normal font package, it just has a peculiar name due to the licensing behind it. We can't ship the fonts directly, instead we have to download them at package install time. Mar 3, 2011 at 8:23
Another work around for me is using command sudo apt-get install wine --no-install-recommends. It only install the wine only.
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