Install Tahoma font in Ubuntu

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Solution 1

You can give try with script:

#!/bin/bash
[ ! -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahoma.ttf -o ! -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahomabd.ttf ] &&
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/OldFiles/IELPKTH.CAB &&
cabextract -F 'tahoma*ttf' IELPKTH.CAB &&
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ &&
mv -f tahoma*ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ &&
chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahoma* &&
fc-cache -v &&
rm -f IELPKTH.CAB &&
echo "Installed Tahoma"

Solution 2

what you can do is a simple method.

download tahoma font.

Then copy that downloaded font and all you have to do is paste it in this folder:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype

But since this folder is protected, you will have to open this folder as root. i.e right click and OPEN AS ROOT. provide your password and paste it there. THATS ALL...!!!

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user261645

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

user261645 almost 2 years

When I tried to install the font Tahoma with these commands, I got two errors (permissions denied):

$ cabextract -F 'tahoma*ttf' IELPKTH.CAB
IELPKTH.CAB: WARNING; possible 5592 extra bytes at end of file.
Extracting cabinet: IELPKTH.CAB
  extracting tahoma.ttf
tahoma.ttf: Permission denied
  extracting tahomabd.ttf
tahomabd.ttf: Permission denied

$ wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/IELPKTH.CAB
cabextract -F 'tahoma*ttf' IELPKTH.CAB
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
mv -f tahoma*ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahoma*
fc-cache -v
rm -f IELPKTH.CAB

douggro over 10 years

You would probably be better off installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras which includes the core MS .ttf fonts which includes Tahoma. See this post for info.
RobotMan over 10 years

sorry, have you tried as root?
redanimalwar over 9 years

@douggro you are wrong, tahoma ist not inside the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package, its only Times New Roman and some other fonts.

David Foerster almost 8 years

-1 That won't work because the cabextract command fails. Nothing related to sudo.
terdon almost 8 years

@DavidFoerster i) we're not lawyers, if Microsoft has an issue with a very well know page, I'm sure they have the legal muscle to deal with it. ii) Since the Microsoft page for the Tahoma font actually links directly to the fonts.com page in this answer, I think it's safe to assume that no copyright is being violated and Microsoft is fine with this redistribution.
David Foerster almost 8 years

@terdon: I agree that Microsoft seems to be fine with distribution in general. However Fontpalace.com is not Fonts.com and distributes the font without a license notice (the page says “License: Unknown”); I doubt that the distribution is still legal under that circumstance.
David Foerster almost 8 years

I circumvented the issue by editing the answer to link to the Font.com page instead. That should resolve it.
terdon almost 8 years

@DavidFoerster I stand corrected, I thought the link was already pointing to fonts.com. Sorry. However, it really isn't our job to deal with copyright issues. And downvoting for that reason seems strange to say the least.
kavadias over 6 years

From $49 ? You have to be kidding.... I used the script, in the other answer, for free!
rofrol over 4 years

download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel returns 404