Re: [SLE] installing msttfonts via YOU fails on Suse 9.2

From: Felix Miata (mrmazda_at_ij.net)
Date: 02/21/05

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    Gabor Istvan wrote:
     
    > I tried to install MS truetype fonts through Yast's Online Update (YOU).
    > I set the following mirror in YOU:
    > ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/suse/suse
    > reload all patches from server and manually select patches were
    > checked. Then I selected 'Download Microsofts(r) True Type Core
    > Fonts from YOU patches and accepted. It downloaded the
    > fetchmsttfonts.sh script but could not install the fonts.It gave the
    > following error messages:
     
    > ERROR(You:Postscript failed.)
    > /var/lib/YaST2/you/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh
     
    > Show Preinstallation Messages...
    > Retrieving fetchmsttfonts.sh: "Download Microsoft(r) TrueType Core
    > Fonts" ... Ok
     
    > Installing fetchmsttfonts.sh: "Download Microsoft(r) TrueType Core
    > Fonts" Error
    > Installation finished.
     
    > No patches have been installed.
     
    > What can be the problem?

    I tried this Friday and found in the YOU download cache a bunch of
    windoze exe files. You might be able to extract their contents using
    zip, or by running each of them under wine, after which using the normal
    font installer on the extractions. I just deleted them and forgot about
    messing with it. 

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