Re: Testing has broken my fonts today
vanillicat <vanilli@nycap.rr.com> writes:
> On 18 Sep 2002 10:05:09 -0500
> DvB <imasu@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Actually, this bug explains the problem in more detail:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes
>
> Thanks so much for linking to this. I got panicky when none of my
> programs were working, and I couldn't mail debian-user because Sylpheed
> is a GTK app! Mozilla functioned fine though, so I could read the list.
> The tip offered in that bugreport did the trick for me:
>
> "Changing the /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts script to the previous behavior
> by uncommenting the creation of the symlinks and commenting the deletion
> of the symlinks returns the system to a working state regarding these
> fonts."
>
> I made these changes, and ran update-ms-fonts again, and everything
> works now!
After reading Alan Shutko's reply to the original post, it sounds to me
like msttcorefonts should depend on the x-ttcidfont-conf package, since
installing that package, adding the fontpath as instructed and deleting
the symlinks I'd created appears to have fixed the problem for me.
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