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MS Truetype fonts (msttcorefonts) 

Prepare 

Make sure you have those packages installed, 

rpm -qa | grep rpmbuild

rpm -qa | grep ttmkfdir

Install cabextract from EPEL, 

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/cabextract.html

rpm -ivh cabextract-*.rpm

Fetch the latest msttcorefonts .spec from corefonts's Home, 

http://corefonts.sf.net

Build & install 

Prepare your build environment, 

echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > $HOME/.rpmmacros

mkdir -p $HOME/rpmbuild/BUILD

mkdir -p $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch

Tweak the .specs to point to relevant SF mirrors (vi msttcorefonts-*.spec), 

mirrors="ovh+heanet+switch"

mirror_count=3

Build the binary, install it and restart the X font server, 

rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

rpm -ivh $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-*.rpm

service xfs restart

Fix the path for phpsyslog, 

mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype

ln -s ../msttcorefonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype

Note. you won't be able to see those fonts with that command, 

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References 

http://corefonts.sf.net 

http://daemonscorner.blogspot.com/