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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