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ShadowsDemise

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Registered: 2011-01-16

Posts: 11

[Solved] Chromium Won't Open Due to Missing Fonts

After 8+ hours of installing and configuring Arch I am finally ready to start adding programs. I installed Chromium with Pacman but Chromium doesn't open and I get this error when I try and run it from the terminal:

[*****@Arch-Desktop ~]$ chromium
[2426:2426:750031879:FATAL:app/gfx/font_skia.cc(153)] Check failed: tf. Could not find any font: Helvetica, sans
Trace/breakpoint trap

I tried searching for the Helvetica font using "pacman -Ss helvetica" but it didn't find anything.

How do I install the fonts need by Chromium?

Thanks

Edited: Chromium just started working for some reason even though I didn't do anything to fix it.

Last edited by ShadowsDemise (2011-01-17 16:42:18)

ngoonee

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Re: [Solved] Chromium Won't Open Due to Missing Fonts

@ShadowsDemise - we don't delete threads here unless there's a good reason for it. Welcome to Arch, please read about the Arch Way and Forum Etiquette on the wiki

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scottro

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Re: [Solved] Chromium Won't Open Due to Missing Fonts

The problem still exists with default installation.  The trick is to install ttf-ms-fonts

This should, apparently, be added as a dependency.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: [Solved] Chromium Won't Open Due to Missing Fonts

@scrottro - Chromium just needs fonts; it doesn't have to specifically be ttf-ms-fonts. Secondly ttf-ms-fonts is an AUR package and will stay like that so it cannot be a dependency. Anyways there was already a bug about it:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18353