[Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#374351: pdflatex and dvips can not find fonts of TeX Live

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Juhapekka|

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > In the meantime you can do (as root)
> > $ echo "Map ugq.map" >> /etc/texmf/updmap.d/99local.cfg
> 
> I had to run it in this way:
> 
> echo "Map ugq.map" >>| /etc/texmf/updmap.d/99local.cfg

No idea what this is for, do you use (t)csh ??

> Then I needed to give right permissions to it:
> 
> chmod ugo+r /etc/texmf/updmap.d/99local.cfg

Even stranger. But this depends on you umask, normally at least the
owner can read the file!

> > $ update-updmap
> > $ updmap-sys
> 
> I also needed to run this:

Shouldn't be necessary as /etc/texmf/ is searched without ls-R database.

> I tried to run updmap as normal (l)user, but I got this error:
> 
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg: Permission denied
> updmap: config file updmap.cfg not found.

Did you call 
	updmap
of 
	updmap-sys
as user?

updmap-sys if for root
updmap is for normal user

What exactely did you call? BTW, all this is not texlive but tetex stuff
if you tetex installed.

> dvips -z -Ppdf -Pwww -Pcmz -Pamz -Poutline -Pcm-lgc -Phfbright -Pcm-super -G0 -j0 -f -t a4 -D 1200 -Z -o ${BASENAME}.ps ${BASENAME}.dvi
> 
> dvips: warning: no config file for `cm-lgc'

Well, it tells you everything. There is NO cm-lgc.config. In fact you do
not need it, as there is a line
	Map cm-lgc.map
in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-latex-extra.cfg

Where did you get this funny incantation above from? Do you actually
need all the options? Most of the -P you can skip as the default for
dvips is set up to use outline fonts, per default, so all the -P are
useless. An some of the other options also seem useless.

> Why it do not find config file cm-lgc ? Should I make separated

Because there is none, and none needed, the fonts are activated in the
texlive-fonts-extra updmap.d config file.

Best wishes

Norbert

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