Re: Error upgrading tetex-extra (experimental)
Ralf Stubner schrieb am 18.08.2005 13:36:
> Christoph Bier <christoph.bier@web.de> writes:
>
>>If it's only me again with these problems there's a
>>severe problem with my TeX installation ...
>>
>>...
>>!!! ERROR! The map file `MinionPro.map' has not been found at all.
>>...
>>
>>chris@lotus:~$ kpsewhich MinionPro.map
>>/home/chris/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/MinionPro/MinionPro.map
>>
>>But Root doesn't find map files in $TEXMFHOME:
>>
>>root@lotus:~# kpsewhich MinionPro.map
>>root@lotus:~#
>
> IMHO the problem is that TEXMFHOME is a per user variable. Hence,
> kpsewhich et al. look into /root/texmf/ among other directories, but not
> in *your* TEXMFHOME. I think you have to put *both* the updmap.cfg
> sniplets and the map files into /etc/texmf/, such that both are found
> when root runs update-updmap and updmap(-sys). You can leave the real
> fonts and metrics in TEXMFHOME, if you want to.
Yes, but I wanted to use the fact that with teTeX 3.0 even map and
encoding files can be put in $TEXMFHOME. I use one $HOME on three
different machines. It would be easier to just synchronize $HOME on
those three machines and then only call the appropriate commands
(texhash, updmap etc.). With installations from source it works. Of
course it also works with the Debian packages but upgrading of
tetex-extra will fail (resp. calling updmap as root will fail) if
some map files are missing in /etc/texmf ... It fails because of a
new feature in teTeX 3.0 that I appreciate very much: one can put
map and encoding files in $TEXMFHOME. If I'm not totally wrong I can
not use this feature automatically with the Debian packages of teTeX
3.0. Right? If so it should be mentioned at a prominent point of
installation/upgrading process.
Regards,
Christoph
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