[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

[Neal Becker]

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.