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Re: help with 2.4.5 in Debian
From: |
Ferenc Wagner |
Subject: |
Re: help with 2.4.5 in Debian |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:03:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:
> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
:
>> Sterling Sympatico <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>I tried to install 2.4.6 in Debian using Ferenc Wagner's
>>>sources from http://tac.ki.iif.hu/.
>> Those packages are Woody only, unfortunately. There is some
>> incompatibility in the kpathsea interface that I couldn't help.
>>
>>> After having the default ec-fonts-mftraced crash and
>>> downloading the nerwer version (.deb), I got an install.
>>
>> You may want to check that your /etc/texmf/dvips/updmap was
>> not corrupted in the process. The Woody installer has to
>> fiddle with that file, while under Sarge it needn't mention
>> ec-mftrace.map.
>
> Why do you have to fiddle with updmap at all? LilyPond (vers. 2.4)
> explicitly specifies the map file when calling dvips, so I
> cannot see any reason why it should be necessary to include
> these fonts using updmap. The only thing that matters is that
> dvips can find the map files, which it will do if they are
> properly placed in the texmf tree and the filename database
> has been updated.
This means I needn't fiddle with updmap after all. Phew.
But since Debian released a couple of days ago, I probably
won't change the package unless serious need arises. Sarge
has better mechanisms for the same purpose anyway.
--
Thanks,
Feri.