MS Fonts offline

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Mohler<cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 11:09 -0700, Ronnie wrote:
>>>
>>> >>Is there any to load MS fonts on Ubuntu 9.04 offline<<
>
>> I am assuming the system in question does not have internet access.
>> This being the case, from a system which does have download capability
>> go to the following site:
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/uk/intrepid/all/msttcorefonts/download
>>
>> Download msttcorefonts_2.5_all.deb or the latest version to a thumbdrive
>> or some other medium.  Its only about 31k.  Return to the isolated
>> system and insert the disk.  Double click the file and an installer
>> should start.  Hope this helps.
>
> Yeah - but doesn't that .deb download an archive file from somewhere?
> IIRC, installing the .deb calls a script that does a wget from
> mickeysoft.
>
> I would:
>
> On an online machine, download the .deb, expand the .deb file and grep
> around for MS or wget - find that archive, download it, carry it to
> the offline machine, then extract the contents into /home/<me>/.fonts

OK - it's not quite that simple.  The fonts are hosted on sourceforge
and they are in .exe format.  I have 'cabextract' installed on my
system - but I'm not sure if it's a default package (I doubt it).
'cabextract' can be used to extract the font files from the .exe files
though once they are downloaded from SF:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/

Yuck ;)

Chris