Anyone know how to install Arial fonts on CentOs 7?

Question

I'm trying to install Arial fonts on CentOs 7 or a fonts pack containing such fonts, preferably using a yum command. I haven't found any guides on how to go about this. Thanks!

Solution 1

I found the answer. It's the same as CentOs 6.

http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/centos-how-tos/how-to-install-microsoft-truetype-fonts-in-centos-6-rhel-6.html

Steps below, in case the link ever stops working in future.

Switch to root user.

[geek@geeksite Desktop]$ su
Password:

Download the Microsoft core fonts rpm package.

[root@geeksite~/]# wget http://www.itzgeek.com/msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm

Install rpm package.

[root@geeksite~/[# rpm -Uvh msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm
That’s All. 

Solution 2

The liberation fonts aim "at metric compatibility with Arial" and other Microsoft fonts, so yum -y list | grep -i liberation should turn up packages to install.

Solution 3

Install Arial fonts for CentOs with

  yum install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig

sourceforge is also a good choice:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts2/files/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm/download?use_mirror=excellmedia