[tex-live] Re: Debian TeXlive and gsftopk

[Arne Jørgensen]

Martin Pokorny <martin at truffulatree.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have recently re-installed the Debian distribution of TeXlive, and have
> encountered a few problems. Before re-installing, I followed the advice on the
> TUG web page, and purged all TeX packages and manually deleted various texmf
> directories. Anyway, the problem occurs when I'm running ConTeXt, trying to
> create a PDF file. The messages would indicate that gsftopk cannot be found
> (which I cannot locate either):
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 uplb8r
> /usr/bin/mktexpk: 264: gsftopk: not found
> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for uplb8r.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Warning: pdfetex (file uplb8r): Font uplb8r at 72 not found
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 uplri8r
> /usr/bin/mktexpk: 264: gsftopk: not found
> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for uplri8r.
> ...
>
> My previous installation of TeXlive was able to build the PDF without a problem.
> Can anyone send me a clue?

I think I had a similar problem some time ago. My problem was that I
still had two old $HOME/.texmf-var and $HOME/.texmf-config
directories.

Kind regards,
-- 
Arne Jørgensen <http://arnested.dk>
DK-TUG / Danish TeX Users Group <http://www.tug.dk/>