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

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, +11:16:54 EEST (UTC +0300),
Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> pressed some keys:

> 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 ??

I use zsh. That >>| means: If file do not exist, then empty file is
created before output is added to end of that file.
 
> > 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!

Maybe I have quite paranoid umask-setting.

077

> > > $ 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, of course.

> 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.

My dvips belongs to tetex.

> > 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

Well, you are right: I checked documentation of cm-lgc and it says
nothing about that -P -option. I should us \usepackage{} in that
LaTeX-source instead.

> Where did you get this funny incantation above from?

I have found them during many years.

> Do you actually need all the options?

Maybe. But I'll stop using that -Pcm-lgc .


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