Re: xfstt not working
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Keith Vance wrote:
> > Prior to installing Debian 2.0 my xfstt font server worked fine. I
> > understand that I need to load xfstt with port 7101, but it still
> > doesn't work.
>
> hmmm what version of xfstt are you installing? did you get i tfrom Debian
> 2.0 (hamm) or from slink?
>
> xfstt 0.9.7 is the version in hamm. That was before I became maintainer.
> ONLY version sprior to 0.9.9-3 (or so) need to be on port 7101.
>
I am running xfstt 0.9.7.
> xfstt 0.9.7 still uses port 7100
>
> > I installed the debian package for xfstt. What exactly do
> > I need to do to make this work.
>
> where are your fonts? The old location (for 0.9.7) is /var/ttfonts
> the NEW location (as of 0.9.9-1) is /usr/share/fonts/truetype
My fonts are in /var/ttfonts.
>
> check teh man page and the docs to see where yours should be
>
> I don't doubt there will be confusion her ebecause...
> I became maintainer after the hamm freeze. That means I couldn't
> make any of these changes...so while the packages in slink (next version...
> unstable now) have these changes (which people have been talkin gabout) they
> do NOT exist in the hamm version.
>
> > Sometimes installing the Debian package
> > can be more of pain than just installing it manually. When I installed
> > xfstt before upgrading it took me about 10 minutes to get it working, I
> > installed in manually not with a debian package. I had xfstt loading in
> > a startup script so it was available everytime my system boots. Does
> > installing the Debian package automatically load xfstt, or do I have to
> > do that myself. If I type xfstt in my shell nothing happens.
>
> Th ecurrent versions (prior to 0.9.9) have a script in init.d to startup
> xfstt automagically on startup. I added this and just last night uploaded a
> new version which closes the remaining bugs in this system.
>
> I am sorry you have had troubles...many of these things I can't fix in a deb
> file because it needs to be compatible with all setups...
> in this package that has menat requiring manual intervention for
> a few of the upgrades...
> I have tried to confine this a bit and hopefully starting with
> 0.9.9-4 upgrades should require no manual intervention.
Instead of messing around with an old version of xfstt sould I just get
the newer version?
>
> -Steve
> Debian xfstt maintainer
>
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Thanks,
Keith
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