getnonfreefonts on a recent TL and Ubuntu

[Bob Tennent]

Do you have the luatex package installed?

/usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-linux/texlua

should be there, even if there isn't a link in /usr/local/bin

Bob T.

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:54 PM Hefferon, Jim S. <jhefferon at smcvt.edu> wrote:

> Thank you, Bob.   But a ls shows no such file /usr/local/bin/texlua, and
> so sudo just says "command not found".   (I got the other address from
> "whereis texlua".)
>
> Jim
>
> ...........................................................
> Doesn’t it feel like the dystopian future we deserve? Like in a decade
> everyone will make their living by steering colorful blob-like creatures
> around to acquire coins in a virtual world, but ownership of the colorful
> blob-like virtual creatures will be concentrated among a hereditary elite
> of people who, like, bought Dogecoin in 2014, and in order to scrape
> together enough to live on you will need to indenture yourself to a member
> of that elite, steering their blob-like virtual creatures around to earn
> coins for them and getting a few crumbs for yourself. And you’ll work
> 16-hour days in the Smooth Love Potions mines just to feed your children,
> but every once in a while in a rare free moment you will stop and ask
> yourself “wait why do our overlords want all these Smooth Love Potions
> anyway?”  --Matt Levine
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Bob Tennent <rdtennent at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 16:02
> To: Hefferon, Jim S.
> Subject: Re: getnonfreefonts on a recent TL and Ubuntu
>
> ⚠ External Sender ⚠
>
> Try
>
> sudo /usr/local/bin/texlua install-getnonfreefonts
>
> Bob
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 3:50 PM Hefferon, Jim S. <jhefferon at smcvt.edu
> <mailto:jhefferon at smcvt.edu>> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Luximono to a brand new Ubuntu and TeX Live
> installation (Ubuntu 20, TL 2021).  I am having trouble installing
> getnonfreefonts.  No doubt I am missing some point, but I just cannot see
> what.  (I am having some trouble with an email account, so I apologize if
> this message is a dupe.)
>
> As described on https://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/, I used wget to
> download install-getnonfreefonts to the current directory.   I then tried
> to run texlua.
>
>   ftpmaint at Alonzo:~/Documents$ texlua ./install-getnonfreefonts
>   Detected System: x86_64-linux
>   Detected Installation: /usr/local/texlive/2021
>   mkdir /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/scripts/getnonfreefonts ...
>  [failed]
>   Sorry, couldn't create directory
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/scripts/getnonfreefonts
>
> (I made install-getnonfreefonts executable but that didn't change the
> outcome.)  OK, maybe sudo?
>
>   ftpmaint at Alonzo:~/Documents$ sudo texlua ./install-getnonfreefonts
>   sudo: texlua: command not found
>
> Maybe it does not like the path?
>
>   ftpmaint at Alonzo:~/Documents$ sudo /usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-
> linux/texlua install-getnonfreefonts
>   lstat(./texlua) failed: ./texlua: No such file or directory
>   kpathsea: Can't get directory of program name: ./texlua
>
> Even this did not work.
>
>   ftpmaint at Alonzo:~/Documents$ sudo /usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-
> linux/texlua /home/ftpmaint/Documents/install-getnonfreefonts
>   lstat(./texlua) failed: ./texlua: No such file or directory
>   kpathsea: Can't get directory of program name: ./texlua
>
> I note the kpathsea errors.  If it helps, my /etc/profile says this.
>
>   export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH"
>   export MANPATH="/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH"
>   export INFOPATH="/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH"
>
> Using sudo -s or sudo su gave similar results (and are at or past the
> limits of my knowledge).  Googling around gave results from at most 2016,
> and they didn't help.  Any ideas would be most welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Hefferon
>
> ...........................................................
> Doesn’t it feel like the dystopian future we deserve? Like in a decade
> everyone will make their living by steering colorful blob-like creatures
> around to acquire coins in a virtual world, but ownership of the colorful
> blob-like virtual creatures will be concentrated among a hereditary elite
> of people who, like, bought Dogecoin in 2014, and in order to scrape
> together enough to live on you will need to indenture yourself to a member
> of that elite, steering their blob-like virtual creatures around to earn
> coins for them and getting a few crumbs for yourself. And you’ll work
> 16-hour days in the Smooth Love Potions mines just to feed your children,
> but every once in a while in a rare free moment you will stop and ask
> yourself “wait why do our overlords want all these Smooth Love Potions
> anyway?”  --Matt Levine
>
>
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