Sometimes when you are viewing Yahoo.com or friendster.com for example, the fonts look weird because the page using windows font. So here we go :

1. download this http://thelinuxbox.org/downloads/fonts/msttcorefonts.tar.gz
2. extract to /usr/share/fonts/ttf

reboot and done. 

Exactly how does one do this?  I get a 'permission denied' when I try...

I think you have to do that with root privilege. (sudo, or simply become root)

I tried a terminal - su>password, etc.- so far so good
But now, how does one proceed?  I opened thunar in the terminal but couldn't find the tar package on the desktop to extract - it doesn't show up anywhere although it's there - so????

You probably download it as a non-root user and it will be located in that user's desktop.  In thunar, if you click on Home (left panel) and the click the username --> Desktop, you should find it there.

If not, while you are in the terminal as root do the following (root> is just the prompt):

I got it - thanks!

You don't actually need to re-boot at the end of this process, because you can tell the system to re-read all of its fonts and bring them online. All you need to do is issue the command

                  fc-cache -fv

which will scan the directories with apparently valid font caches and rebuild them, whilst at the same time gives you loads of terribly interesting information. You will notice that when you re-boot, the system runs fc-cache to update its font libraries. All you are doing here is avioding the hassle of a re-boot and bringing the fonts directly online.

Regards

Michael

And if you really want to annoy the life out of peoples with your use of creative fonts then you can start downloading from here

        http://www.themeworld.com/fonts/top50-daily.html

Sorry. Didn't know that, newbie here and still learning. 
BTW, thanks.

Its not /usr/share/fonts/ttf its /usr/share/fonts/TTF why i am telling this is linux is case sensitive. But thanks for the post

I do not what to add, but the information was helpful for me. Thanks

correct me if i'm wrong
there isn't any need of becoming root

you could just extract the package to .fonts in your home directory
ofcourse if there are multiple users for which you want to achieve this
the we'll have to stick with your approach

If you want the fonts are system-wise available, you extract the fonts to /usr/share/fonts/TTF with root privilege.

If only you use the fonts, you can extract the fonts to ~/.fonts

then issue the command:

fc-cache -vf

You don't have to reboot the system for the fonts to be recognized.

Hi,

another option is to build a package with the windows fonts that already run all the necessary commands.

P.S. the created package can't be redistributed.

Regards,

is it not good enough to add fc-cache -fv to the install build script, so that it auto runs after the installation is complete. THe users who want, no need to rem this cmd often.