Install Microsoft Times New Roman Font on Linux

The Times New Roman font (from Microsoft) is not available by default on most Linux distributions. If you need to use this font in LibreOffice, Gimp, or other Linux graphics app, you can install it. In this article, we’ll show you how to install Times New Roman fonts on Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux).

On Ubuntu/Debian distros, you can install the Times New Roman font software package from the default repository:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Accept the license agreement and confirm the font installation. After that, Times New Roman fonts will be available in all Linux apps.

On rpm-based distributions (CentOS, RHEL. Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux), installing the Times New Roman font is a bit more complicated. You will have to build and install the rpm package with the fonts yourself.

Install the required packages using the yum (dnf) package manager:

$ sudo yum -y install rpm-build ttmkfdir cabextract

Download SPEC font file msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec (Microsoft’s TrueType core fonts for Linux)

$ wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec
$ sudo rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec

After that, the RPM package will appear in the $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ directory. Install it:

$ sudo yum install /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.noarch.rpm

Restart the xfs and check that the fonts have been successfully installed:

$ fc-list | grep Time

/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/timesi.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Italic,cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,kursywa,Itálico,Курсив,İtalik,Poševno,nghiêng,Etzana
/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/times.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,thường,Arrunta
/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/timesbd.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Bold,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiona,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,đậm,Lodia
/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/timesbi.ttf: Times New Roman:style=Bold Italic,Negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Pogrubiona kursywa,Negrito Itálico,Полужирный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,Krepko poševno,nghiêng đậm,Lodi etzana