Random Wisdom

Instructions obtained from:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

1. Install cabextract and fedora-rpmdevtools:

   $ sudo yum install cabextract fedora-rpmdevtools

2. Create the build tree:

    $ fedora-buildrpmtree 

3. Get the SPEC file:

   $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPEC && \
     wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

4. Get the fonts and create the RPM package:

    $ rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec 

5. Install the fonts package:

    $ sudo rpm -ivh ../RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm 

Restart any running application to use the new fonts.

Paul Howarth has a very nice article here:

http://www.city-fan.org/tips/TweakKernelPackage

The main benefit is that you can use rpmbuild to generate kernel RPMs using the same SPEC file as the distribution itself — resulting in packages that are as easy to handle as those from FC itself.