Re: 'Applications -> Preferences -> Font' not working.

[Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz>]

Matt Brubeck wrote:
I installed 'metacity' to see if it would change anything, but no.

I still can't access

Application -> Preferences -> [Fonts or Themes]

It's frustrating after updating and upgrading kernel and Gnome.

Adam.
afb@paradise.net.nz

> Adam Bogacki wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Tux:~# gnome-font-properties
> > gnome-font-properties: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libmetacity-private.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> > or directory
> >    
>
> This library should be in libmetacity0:
>
> $ dpkg -S libmetacity-private
> libmetacity0: /usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.0
> libmetacity0: /usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.0.0.0
>
> $ dpkg -l libmetacity0
> ii  libmetacity0   2.8.1-1
>
> This package should be installed automatically as a dependency of
> "capplets" (which contains gnome-font-properties and friends).  I'm not
> sure why it's not installed or configured properly on your system.
>
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