Installing new fonts in Collabora

For the core MS fonts:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

You may be asked to accept the license agreement, i was not asked.

They end up in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts

Next is to install the clear types such as calibri

This is a bit different but can be done with the vista fonts installer script. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions.

Create a .font folder as the script needs that.

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Install Collabora Online on Ubuntu 20 for Nextcloud

First, log in to your Ubuntu 20.04 server through SSH as the root user or any other user with sudo privileges:

ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number

You will need to replace ‘IP_Address‘ and ‘Port_number‘ with your server’s respective IP address and SSH port number. Additionally, replace ‘root’ with the username of the system user with sudo privileges.

You can check whether you have the proper Debian version installed on your server with the following command:

$ lsb_release -a

You should get this output:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Before starting, you have to make sure that all Ubuntu OS packages installed on the server are up to date. You can do this by running the following commands:

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