[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Wed Jan 28 16:00:45 CET 2009


Neal Becker wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> 2009/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>>> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>>>> 2009/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> but why doesn't it test whether the fonts are actually installed
>>>>>> globally on the system, taht would be a nice addition.
>>>>> But why does mine say TEXMFHOME is not set?  How do I set it?  This is
>>>>> a brand-new installation.
>>>> dou you have your TL bin directory at the beginning of PATH? Setting
>>>> TEXMFHOME should not be necessary because it's obtained by call to
>>>> kpsewhich. You can test it by
>>>>
>>>> kpsewhich --expand-path=\$TEXMFHOME
>>>>
>>>> It should return the value even without the need of explicit setting.
>>>> It is the very way used by getnonfreefonts.
>>> This is weird because normal commands (e.g. pdflatex) work fine:
>>> pdflatex amshelp.tex
>>> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>>> [...]
>>> (/usr/share/texlive-2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Notice it found my texlive-2008 stuff just fine.
>> And how about getnonfreefonts? Does it find the right version?
> 
> getnonfreefonts -l
> ! ERROR: The variable TEXMFHOME is not set.
> 
> That is the problem I reported in the first place.

I think Zdenek was refering to

which getnonfreefonts

-- 

/daleif


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