Windows fonts in Fedora 10

Today I decided to install the windows fonts on my Fedora 10. The main reason was because of the fonts shown in the web browser (Firefox). Many sites I visit every day use the windows fonts which have their equivalents in Linux but I don't like it. As far as I'm concered I guess that when Firefox gets a definition of some paragraph that it's meant to be in Verdana, it uses some equivalent font, which is not the same and looks weird. It's my personal opinion but I just don't like those equivalents.
So I launched Google and was looking for some tutorial which whould explain me how to install the windows fonts. I found loads of them, but none worked. I knew I did the same search about a year ago but I couldn't remember the site.
Finally I found a nice step-by-step tutorial which worked well so I want to share it with people doing the same thing, and also for me, I might need it in the future.

Advice: Use ctrl+shift+v to copy into your console.

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wget http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/fedora10/msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.noarch.rpm

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su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.noarch.rpm'

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su -c 'yum install rpmdevtools rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir'

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rpmdev-setuptree

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cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/

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wget http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/fedora10/msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.spec

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rpmbuild -bb msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.spec

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cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/

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su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.noarch.rpm'

The result:




Source: http://my-guides.net