Bug#598351: texlive-latex-base: Error when using lmodern fonts together with T1 fontenc

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.09.10 Eugen Dedu (Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr) wrote:

Hi,

> Package: texlive-latex-base
> Version: 2009-10
> Severity: important
> 
> I have an error when using lmodern fonts together with T1 fontenc
> (as required by French babel to have correct hyphenation on
> accentuated characters).  When using pdflatex or latex on the
> following text:
> 
> \documentclass{report}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[french]{babel}
> \begin{document}
> A.
> \end{document}
> 
> I receive always the following error:
> 
> ! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)
> file not found.
> <to be read again>
>                    relax
> l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont
> 
> ?
> ) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
> 
This tfm file is in texlive-latex-recommended. The description of it
reads:

Description: TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
 A collection of recommended add-on packages for LaTeX which have widespread
   use

I suggest to close that bug, reason: PEBCAC.

H.
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