Microsoft fonts for Ubuntu Linux (and others)

In his "great" generosity, at the time they were trying hard to win the browsers war, Microsoft had released a pack of core TTF fonts with a lax license to redistribute them, for "interoperability matters". Times have gone, but the files have remained in various places on the web (e.g. project corefonts on SourceForge).

You can quickly install these fonts in Ubuntu with a command like the following:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Now either re-login or use the following command to refresh the fonts list:

sudo fc-cache -fv

Tip taken from Ubuntu blog.