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Open Office doesn't come with most of the MS fonts. I've been struggling all afternoon to add them with nothing to show for it. The interwebs are no help either because the methods to fix the "broken packages" error I'm getting don't work.

Open Office doesn't come with most of the MS fonts. I've been struggling all afternoon to add them with nothing to show for it. The interwebs are no help either because the methods to fix the "broken packages" error I'm getting don't work.

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What is your linux distro name?

There are several ways to add fonts.

  1. Copy the .ttf or .otf file to /home/$USER/.fonts.

  2. sudo-apt-get install $fontname

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This is how I managed to get it done. Thank you!

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/usr/share/fonts

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Gonna need more clues: What flavour distro are you running? Which WM?

If you're in something like ubuntu

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Gallium OS. Not sure what ver, etc. because I've been drinking pretty heavily since I posted the question.

I'll check your link tomorrow and get back to you.

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Gallium OS

Simple answer: sudo apt install gnome-font-viewer

It has an "install" button.

Set it to open font files from your file mangler and you'll be overloading your system with ridiculous new fonts in no time.

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I shall try this immediately. Thanks!

EDIT: This froze my crappy machine so I had to restart.
:-)

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Very carefully with your penis. This is not the kinda thing you wanna mess up on.

Edit: Oh shit gallium os is also my distro

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>The interwebs are no help either because the methods to fix the "broken packages" error I'm getting don't work.

It usually happens after canceling an upgrade or install... Because something was being installed, something you didn't want, and you nervously hit "ctrl c" as in "fuck you installer", which is followed by another fuck you installer with a "apt remove packagename". Then of course the installer tells you you shouldn't do that because blah, but you do anyway because fuck you that's why

Then it tells something about broken packages once you try to update/upgrade/install something again

Usually it suggests to type this "sudo dpkg --configure -a"

Which you should do, and then the upgrade/install process starts again (which is frustrating since you didn't want that shit installed in the first place, c'est la vie) And then once all the shits are done, you can remove your shit you didn't want installed "sudo apt remove packagename"

...

Fuck you wolfram

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This comment ^ is gospel truth.