When I tried to install the font Tahoma with these commands, I got two errors (permissions denied):
$ cabextract -F 'tahoma*ttf' IELPKTH.CAB
IELPKTH.CAB: WARNING; possible 5592 extra bytes at end of file.
Extracting cabinet: IELPKTH.CAB
extracting tahoma.ttf
tahoma.ttf: Permission denied
extracting tahomabd.ttf
tahomabd.ttf: Permission denied
$ wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/IELPKTH.CAB
cabextract -F 'tahoma*ttf' IELPKTH.CAB
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
mv -f tahoma*ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahoma*
fc-cache -v
rm -f IELPKTH.CAB
ubuntu-restricted-extras
which includes the core MS .ttf fonts which includes Tahoma. See this post for info.ttf-mscorefonts-installer
package, its only Times New Roman and some other fonts.