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I would like to install the MS Truetype Fonts that come through the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer, so I did:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Accepting the license, the process completes without any errors. The fonts end up in

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts

as expected. Just to be sure, I also did a

sudo fc-cache -f -s -v

which among other things says in its output:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: caching, new cache contents: 60 fonts, 0 dirs

So far, so good (and inline with question How do I install fonts?) However, when I then open any font dialog (e.g. in OpenOffice or the font dialog of the terminal) I don't see all of the new fonts. For Arial, the standard form is missing, but bold and italic are there. Times New Roman is missing altogether.

I can use nautilus to browse to the font directory, double click the Arial.ttf file and see the font in all its beauty. I can even click the install button then and the font is copied over to my personal ./fonts directory and from there on visible to my apps. But it is not picked up from the system directory.

How do I get these fonts available system-wide for all users?

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  • Do the fonts show up if you run fc-list as a user? If not, does clearing the contents of ~/.fontconfig/ help? Aug 3, 2011 at 13:24

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Argh, by coincidence I just found the solution. There was a file called ~/.fonts.conf in my home directory that seems to come from Fontmatrix and had a list of rejected fonts, among them the ones I found missing. Simply deleting this file solved the problem. I remember that I had played around with Fontmatrix but I'm not sure what caused it to create this file. Anyway, problem solved.

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I found out, after having similar problems, that in my folder (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts) there was a file, saying that my licens failed - it gave me a command to use in the terminal to get prompted another licens agreement, which this time made it work.

Netflix Desktop worked like a charm after that! (well... truth be told, installations was needed, but it was all automatically done after that!)

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    Could you enter in more details? If I had the same issue, what steps should I follow to fix the problem? Edit your answer and add that information.
    – Braiam
    Sep 11, 2013 at 1:03

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