Bill, On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Bill Ataras wrote: > I have tried to install virtualbox and it always fails. The problem > arises when it tries to install msttcorefonts. A list of perhaps a > dozen or more failures to resolve a url messages are displayed. Other > than this, all appears well. > > I'm able to create a vm, but when I try to start it so I can install the > guest (XP) OS, it fails and reports the missing msttcorefonts. > > I've tried to find solutions on the web, but all I've found eventually > crash and burn because they run into the same msttcorefonts problem. > > Is there a solution for this? > > My OS is Ubuntu 8.04 and I've been trying to install > virtualbox_1.6.4-33808.
Our packages don't have a direct reference to msttcorefonts. But ok, there is a dependency from libqt3-mt to fontconfig which has a dependency to fontconfig-config which has a dependency to either ttf-dejavu or ttf-bitstream-vera or ttf-freefont or gsfonts-x11 or msttcorefonts. So libqt-mt just needs a proper proportional font and you can install ttf-bitstream-vera as well. Nevertheless the msttcorefonts package is recommended since it provides all regular Microsoft TrueType fonts for Linux. For doing this it downloads the fonts directly from the internet. If that fails, you either have to check your internet connection or the server could be temporarily down and you should try to download the fonts with dpkg-reconfigure msttcorefonts Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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