Some applications/games understandably assume that they are running on Windows. Fonts such as Times New Roman and Courier are assumed to exist. In the case of Linux/WINE they may not. When running a game through WINE there was a DLL that was loaded that crashed due to a NULL ptr dereference. After some blind debugging and some luck I ended up realising that it was assuming that an MS font existed and, of course, there must not be any such assertion performed in the code.
On an Ubuntu-like distribution, the package named: `ttf-mscorefonts-installer' solved this issue.
Is it an idea to pull this package in as a dependency.
Is this even the correct forum to request such a thing?
WINE should install MS Core Fonts as a dependency?
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Re: WINE should install MS Core Fonts as a dependency?
Oh, this completely relates to: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342.
