Comments on: Installing Microsoft Corefonts on CentOS 5

By: Carlos Caicedo-Russi

Carlos Caicedo-Russi — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:56:27 +0000

Awesome! Many thanks for your help! I use CentOS 5.5 with Elastix 2.0.3 and works like a charm! Best wishes, Carlos

By: John S.

John S. — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:17:26 +0000

It appears that none of the mirrors will work anymore at least from our location.

Bummer! This is a great way to install the fonts that I have used many times before but now no longer appears to work.

I am looking into copying he files manually from a windows install and modifying the script to look for the files locally.

That is unless someone has a better idea!

By: BenBurch

BenBurch — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:29:48 +0000

That works, Grisha, thanks!

By: Grisha

Grisha — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:31:29 +0000

For everyone experiencing download problems during the build process:

The build script uses random mirrors for getting the fonts (some of which may not work). The easiest workaround if you get a failure is to just try running the rpmbuild command again until you get a working mirror.

You can also modify line 38 of the spec file (mirrors=”…) and remove the mirror that is failing for you, then run rpmbuild again.

By: Saurabh Agrawal

Saurabh Agrawal — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:05:02 +0000

URL seems to be broken. I cannot access:

http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net

Can someone suggest me other way to install fonts?

By: Saurabh Agrawal

Saurabh Agrawal — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:01:07 +0000

Something is broken on weblink , I guess. I am getting following error after:

rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

Can someone please help me out here?

+ wget –timeout=5 -O andale32.exe http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
–2011-01-14 17:20:52– http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
Resolving superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net… 216.34.181.96
Connecting to superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.96|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2011-01-14 17:20:53 ERROR 404: Not Found.

error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74331 (%prep)

By: Mats Hellman

Mats Hellman — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:52:11 +0000

Bob, you are absolutely correct. I’ll correct that. Never do anything as root if you can do it with another account.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:32:23 +0000

Never build rpm’s as root, rpmbuild works just fine with user privileges and there is no danger of autotools hosing your system with its idiocy.

By: Mats Hellman

Mats Hellman — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:29:23 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Good to know it still works on CentOS 5.5.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:49:04 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! It saved a lot of trouble and works fine with CentOS 5.5 too.

Kind regards from Germany

Michael