Re: Font troubles with Fedora Build from CVS

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Carl Sorensen writes:

> I downloaded the fonts as an RPM, since I'm using Fedora.
>
> After download, I tried to install, with the following results.
>
> address@hidden lilypond]# rpm --install ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.2-1.noarch.rpm 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         mftrace is needed by ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.2-1
> address@hidden lilypond]# which mftrace
> /usr/local/bin/mftrace
>
> This seems to indicate some kind of trouble in my system, doesn't it?

No, that's a bug in the package, I think.

> Then, following the install instructions for systems where RPM and DEB won't 
> work,
> I did the follwing:
>
> address@hidden lilypond]# rpm2cpio ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.2-1.noarch.rpm | 
> cpio -uid

> Any thoughts on how to fix it?

I think you'll see that the fonts are in a whole new direcory
./usr/share/texmf/... from where you ran rpm2cpio

You'd better do something like rpm --install --force ec-fonts...

Or, you'd need to cd to / before doing the rpm2cpio trick.

Jan.

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