Bug#72630: tetex-bin: mkfontdesc fails on Debian [FIX]
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20000807
Severity: normal
mkfontdesc doesn't work on Debian because PK fonts are kept in
/var/spool/texmf/pk:
diziet# mkfontdesc
Ooops! font-directory /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk does not exist.
Need to change value for $TEXMFMAIN?
PK fonts are stored in /var/spool/texmf/pk on Debian systems, but
mkfontdesc assumes that they are in TEXMFMAIN/fonts/pk, where
TEXMFMAIN is expanded to /usr/share/texmf by kpstool -v
'$TEXMFMAIN'.
VARTEXFONTS is set to /var/spool/texmf, but using VARTEXFONTS
instead of TEXMFMAIN would still fail because mkfontdesc assumes
that there's a directory called fonts that contains a directory
called pk below the directory specifed.
The problem can be fixed by creating a symbolic link between
/var/spool/texmf/pk and /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk, but I'm not
sure that's the best solution.
System information
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Debian Release: woody
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux diziet 2.2.17-weird #1 Mon Sep 4 16:31:54 PDT 2000 ppc
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libpng2, libstdc++2.10, libz1, tetex-lib, xlib6g, xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4), tetex-lib (>= 1.0.6), tetex-base (>= 1.0-5), ed, debianutils (>= 1.13.1)
ii libc6 2.1.3-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libpng2 1.0.8-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-13 The GNU stdc++ library
un libz1 <none> (no description available)
ii tetex-lib 1.0.7+20000807 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii xlib6g 3.3.6-10 shared libraries required by X clients
ii xlib6g 3.3.6-10 shared libraries required by X clients
ii tetex-lib 1.0.7+20000807 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20000804 basic teTeX library files
ii ed 0.2-18 The classic unix line editor
ii debianutils 1.13.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
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