Upfrading from Ubuntu 14.03 to Ubuntu 16.0

[Colin Law]

On 3 August 2016 at 15:53, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The ms-tt-corefonts package is not a standard part of any Ubuntu
>> install. I would guess that your other machines did not have it
>> installed. It should not normally need updating; they are fonts, not
>> binaries; there are no updates and they were released many years ago.
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> Furthermore (according to some complaints I found the other day but haven't
> verified) Microsoft has since released newer versions of the same fonts with
> different metrics. Unless you like the appearance of the legacy glyphs in
> Gimp or something (so the differing line breaks don't matter), I think few
> Ubuntu users will want to install ttf-mscorefonts-installer anymore.
> Especially since just installing the package can break other things.

I believe it is pulled in by ubuntu-restricted-extras.

Colin


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