Microsoft TrueType core fonts on Manjaro Linux

We will see how to install the Microsoft's TrueType core fonts on Manjaro Linux.

Prerequisites

cabextract is a little soft which can extract the files from a .cab Microsoft file.

Install it now as root user

pacman -Sy cabextract

Download the fonts

The fonts are available on the corefonts project website.

Extraction

Example with the Impact font

cabextract -F *.TTF impact32.exe
Extracting cabinet: impact32.exe
  extracting Impact.TTF

All done, no errors.

Installation

So, now just move the font on your ~/.fonts folder.

mkdir ~/.fonts
mv Impact.TTF ~/.fonts/

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