Familiar Linux distro for iPaq PDA:s have resolved the proble in that way.
They have "postinstall"-script that users can run if they want to get
Microsoft Fonts.
It will download and install Microsoft fonts from the SourceForge. (By
using ipkg-installer which is very simular to Debian installer)
Here is part of the Familiar installation description from their
installation page. It would be helpful for the users to see installation
instructions for doing something similar
like that also in Mandrake Linux. (Maybe one option in the Mandrake
Control Centers font configurations)
Installing fonts and setting the time (in Familiar)
The "familiar-postinst" package provides a mechanism for
performing a couple common operations that people are interested in:
Sets the current date and time.
Download and install Microsoft's core True-Type Fonts.
Simply run /root/postinst. It will take care of the rest. You can see all the
output if you run
/root/postinst-x.
Btw Ben, thanks for making this page!
"http://ben.reser.org/corefonts/";
Mika
Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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26.11.2002 20:47
Please respond to cooker
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:38:04PM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote:
> We did not remove them some months ago to see them back.
As far as I know they were never in contrib. And I'm not seeing any
reference to them being in the distro in the archives (cooker or
changelog lists). The only discussion there's been that I can find is
about Microsoft taking it off the site and that it's available on
sourceforge and that plf has a SRPM available. So I have no idea what
you are talking about David.
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