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On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 00:08 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:20 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On 11/23/05, Sanjay Arora <<A HREF="mailto:sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com">sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Want to support the following apps on some of our centos 4.2 desktops.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Are yum-installable binaries/rpms available for CentOS 4.2 and which</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > repository?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > MP3 player</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Macromedia Flash/Shockwave</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > MPlayer Media Player</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > RealPlayer 10 Media Player</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Java J2RE and Mozilla Plug-in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > MS TrueType fonts</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> MS TrueType Fonts are no longer available, and there's a mess of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> licensing restriction surrounding them. Basically you can't get them</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> anymore unless you know how to do it yourself.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> See <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm">http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm</A> for details.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hmmm...so that means that sites that use them will not be rendered well</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">on non-M$ desktops? Any open-source alternative projects coming up?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Any links on how to get them from your M$ system?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">With regards.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Sanjay.</FONT>
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Sanjay,<BR>
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There were a few threads on installing the MS fonts just a short time ago on here. I installed them on my x86_64 box. Not trivial, but not really difficult either. Search the message archives and you should find them.<BR>
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Sam
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