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One of the first things I do when setting up a new Linux box is get my fonts sorted out, for obvious copyright reasons, the Microsoft fonts package isn’t shipped with Linux distributions.  The main reason for having Microsoft fonts on a Linux machine will be so that web pages that are designed for them will display correctly.

Although this will be similar for any Linux/BSD distribution, the instructions below focus on installing these fonts under Arch Linux.

First of all we’ll need to open up a terminal and get super user access

We then need to go to a temporary directory and download the msfonts.zip package:

Then we’ll need to decompress the zipped files and copy them to the universal fonts directory:

Once that’s done you can finish up by refreshing your systems font cache:

You should then find after you logout and back in again that you have new fonts available to use.

Manual Download: msfonts.zip