MS Fonts offline

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:10 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Thank's for the assist Chris.  Couldn't they also just pull the fonts
> from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ on a system which does
> have msttcorefonts already installed and paste them to the same on the
> isolated system? (just thought of that) :P  May need to create the
> corefont directory but, beside that, a cut and paste might work just as
> easy.

Sure - if the online system is *nix. ;)

Chris