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This tutorial will describe howto make fonts on Fedora Core 6 looks like on Microsoft Windows.

All you have to do is just follow this instructions.

1. Download MS TrueType Fonts

# wget --referer=http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html \
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/files/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

2. Download freetype2 packages source.

# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS/freetype-2.2.1-10.fc6.src.rpm

3. Install & Rebuild freetype2.

# rpm -ivh freetype-2.2.1-10.fc6.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
# vi freetype.spec

change this:

%define without_bytecode_interpreter 1

with this:

%define without_bytecode_interpreter 0

And change this:

Release: 10%{?dist}

with this one:

Release: 11%{?dist}

we have to do this, because yum always update with the newest freetype2 packages from repository.

Save that file, and rebuild that srpms using rpmbuild

# rpmbuild -bb freetype.spec
# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
# rpm -e --nodeps freetype; rpm -ivh freetype-2.2.1-11.i386.rpm

4. Install MS TrueType Fonts

# rpm -ivh msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

BTW, msttcorefonts is not build in with tahomabd.ttf, so you must copy tahomabd.ttf from Microsoft Windows and put this file on /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/

5. Configure your desktop using this instructions.

Voila!

PS: read this if you’re trying this tutorial