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fedora linux
Fonts are located in /usr/share/fonts
. Copy files there and logout/login to use them.
They can also be placed in ~/.fonts
For some applications to see the new fonts: fc-cache -f -v
or update the font path in the application config.
microsoft fonts
Get the fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net
wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec
maybe install
dnf list rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir
build
rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec
check where they're produced and
dnf install /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.noarch.rpm