Comment 84 for bug 431217

I'm afraid that the 'fixes' discussed were too obscure for me and a genuine fix Update appears to be a long way off. Meanwhile, being a 'use wot works' kind of a guy, I found that immediately following installation of ubuntu-restricted-extras by the removal of ttf-mscorefonts-installer left the other, more critical packages installed. I then followed this with a Ubuntu 6.0.1 vintage old tip of creating a 'MyFonts' folder in Home, copying my favourite TTF files into it, going to usr/share/fonts with Nautilus and using 'open as root' to Cut'n'Paste and add the MyFonts folder, set its Properties, Permissions to Read-only access and low and behold, I've added not only the core fonts but others that I've paid for over the years and found useful. For example my default in OO Writer is now once again Antiqua, a clone of Palatino !
I hope that this work-around helps other folks.