[lucida] Problems with Installation

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 25 juil. 2013 à 16:10, ulrike demske <udemske at googlemail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks, now I got in fact the lucida.zip file which I double clicked - only to get a folder with the very same content as before.
> 
> I did then, as you advised:
> 
> ulrikes-imac:~ udemske$ cd Desktop/lucida-type1
> ulrikes-imac:lucida-type1 udemske$ sudo cp -R* /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
> Password:
> cp: illegal option -- *
> usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file
>        cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory
> ulrikes-imac:lucida-type1 udemske$ 
> 
> and no files have been copied… 

There's a space between "-R" and "*". It makes all the difference, by telling cp that -R is an option while * is the first argument. Without the space, cp complains that --R* is not a valid option name.

Bruno