[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:
> 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

which getnonfreefonts
/usr/local/bin/getnonfreefonts

[nbecker at nbecker5 ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/getnonfreefonts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2009-01-27 14:47 /usr/local/bin/getnonfreefonts -> 
/usr/share/texlive-2008/bin/x86_64-linux/getnonfreefonts