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How can I add arial to the fonts used by software?

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1673 / 2 Years ago, tue, august 23, 2022, 2:12:02

Hi people I've used Ubuntu's software centre to add Microsoft fonts (by downloading the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer) to Ubuntu but this doesn't seem to translate into the fonts being available for MarvinSketch which is actually the whole reason I added these new fonts. Plus it doesn't seem available for LibreOffice See I'm trying to create images that satisfy these conditions and one of them is that the text in MarvinSketch is in Arial font. I also can't seem to get this font to be used for general things like headings and default text in other software like Google Chrome (which I'm trying to achieve by means of Ubuntu Tweak Tool).

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answered 2 Years ago gavgenerati · Accepted Answer

I faced similar issue, to this one when I declined its license while installation; And another case when I disabled network to avoid downloading them. (with wine installation)

ttf-mscorefonts-installer was marker as installed

Where its folder was empty (do you have any font files there):
```
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
```

ttf-mscorefonts-installer is not a native package due to license, fonts are downloaded by a script (pre-/post-installation script)

Fixed by reinstalling it:

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