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installing TeX



  How can it be that the "I" in the two error messages shown below
does not "know how to generate cmss10.mf" and "can't find file
`cmss10.mf'"

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$ tex Gentle.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
(Gentle.texkpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM cmss10.tfm 
Running MakeTeXPK cmss10.tfm
mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input cmss10 \</dev/null
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1)
kpathsea: Running MakeTeXMF cmss10.mf 

I don't know how to generate cmss10.mf!
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! I can't find file `cmss10.mf'.
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[...]
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given that

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$ locate cmss10
/G/texmf.Debian/fonts/metafont/src/cm/cmss10.mf
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and

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$ ls -ld /usr/lib/texmf
lrwxrwxrwx   ...  /usr/lib/texmf -> /G/texmf.Debian
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    ?

    Bill









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