Linux – How to install Arial font or any true type font in Debian Wheezy

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I have a web page deployed in server linux (Wheezy server version) and this web page generate a PDF file using a Arial font. I've looked at

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/

and there is no Arial font found there. Only:

DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSansMono.ttf
DejaVuSans.ttf
DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSerif.ttf

How to install Arial font?

Best Answer

Solve the problem with:

wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

#Dependence for dpkg 
apt-get install cabextract 

#Install fonts by dpkg
dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

reboot

After this the report works fine.

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First make sure that your /etc/apt/sources.list contains the wheezy-updates repository (this makes sure you always get the newest updates for the ClamAV virus scanner - this project publishes releases very often, and sometimes old versions stop working), and that the contrib and non-free repositories are enabled (some packages such as libapache2-mod-fastcgi are not in the main repository).

Add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free

Then run command apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade worked for me.

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