Re: latest msttcorefonts broken?

[DvB <imasu@earthlink.net>]

Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 11:23 pm, DvB wrote:
> > I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts
> > package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the
> > monotype-arial-iso8859-1 fontset from that package keeps printing the
> > following error message over and over (but doesn't appear to be causing
> > any other problems), even after I reset the fonts to the default values:
> > Any ideas as to how I might fix this?
> 
> The problem is it that debian installs all its fonts into a different location 
> that X expects, and then makes a symbolic link to the font files.  The latest 
> msttcorefonts doesnt create the proper links.
> 
> The directories you need to examine are /usr/share/fonts/truetype and 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType


I got this working with the initial install, but I guess the upgrade
changed things... maybe I need to reconfigure debconf so I get prompted
more often before changes are made :-)

Thanks!