How can I add arial to the fonts used by software?

Question

Hi people I've used Ubuntu's software centre to add Microsoft fonts (by downloading the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer) to Ubuntu but this doesn't seem to translate into the fonts being available for MarvinSketch which is actually the whole reason I added these new fonts. Plus it doesn't seem available for LibreOffice See I'm trying to create images that satisfy these conditions and one of them is that the text in MarvinSketch is in Arial font. I also can't seem to get this font to be used for general things like headings and default text in other software like Google Chrome (which I'm trying to achieve by means of Ubuntu Tweak Tool).

Answer 1

I faced similar issue, to this one when I declined its license while installation; And another case when I disabled network to avoid downloading them. (with wine installation)

• ttf-mscorefonts-installer was marker as installed

• Where its folder was empty (do you have any font files there):

  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
  

ttf-mscorefonts-installer is not a native package due to license, fonts are downloaded by a script (pre-/post-installation script)

Fixed by reinstalling it:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Answer 2

I can't tell exactly what the problem is, but you could probably find an Arial .ttf somewhere on the Internet, open it, install it, and then see if the problem persists.

Answer 3

The quickest and easiest way to install the Microsoft font pack (Arial, times new roman, Comic sans, Windings) is to open terminal by press Ctrl + Alt + T on keyboard and then execute this following commands

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer