[tex-live] Install font in Mandriva 2009.1
Bob Plantz
plantz at cds1.net
Thu May 28 23:40:52 CEST 2009
On Thursday 28 May 2009 13:02:16 Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
> Do you have getnonfreefonts installed? It's part of TeX Live. Then
> you can simply run
>
> getnonfreefonts-sys --help
>
> and it will tell you where it would install the fonts. It's the same
> directory where the TeX system expects them.
Unfortunately, the Mandriva distro did not install it on my system. I've been
searching, but I cannot locate a Mandriva package that contains it.
And I am unable to figure out how to get it from texlive.
>
> SELFAUTOPARENT is two directory levels above the directory containing
> the binaries. You can use kpsewhich in order to find out to what it
> expands on your system. It's useful for other variables and search
> paths too because it uses the same search algorithm as the programs.
>
> kpsewhich -expand-var=\$SELFAUTOPARENT
Neat. Learned something new. Thank you.
>
> If you have getnonfreefonts, you can simply run
>
> getnonfreefonts-sys luximono
>
> and you don't have to worry about anything else.
>
Sounds like my best option is to install getnonfreefonts-sys
Thank you for you help.
Bob
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