Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:34:54PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> > Whilst the package manager puts its fonts into /usr/share/fonts,
> > the correct place for you to put yours would be
> > /usr/local/share/fonts, or any subdirectory thereof, such as
> > /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype (or even deeper).
> 
> I have a whole lot of:
> 
>    # locate fonts
>    [..]
>    /usr/local/share/Mowitz/fonts/tnrl2bi_.afm
>    /usr/local/share/Mowitz/fonts/tnrl2bi_.pfb
>    [..]
>
> Left over from a "Damn Small Linux" install. [...] According to what
> you say I should just replicate the /usr/local/share/fonts hierarchy
> similar to the /usr/share/fonts hierarchy and they'll "just work"?

No need to look at /usr/share/fonts.
In /usr/local/share/fonts you could create any hierarchy you like.
A few examples:

    /usr/local/share/fonts/tnrl2bi_.afm
    /usr/local/share/fonts/tnrl2bi_.pfb
    [..]

    /usr/local/share/fonts/type1/tnrl2bi_.afm
    /usr/local/share/fonts/type1/tnrl2bi_.pfb
    [..]

    /usr/local/share/fonts/Mowitz/tnrl2bi_.afm
    /usr/local/share/fonts/Mowitz/tnrl2bi_.pfb
    [..]

    /usr/local/share/fonts/type1/Mowitz/tnrl2bi_.afm
    /usr/local/share/fonts/type1/Mowitz/tnrl2bi_.pfb
    [..]

If your last Etch update & upgrade was not very long ago (i.e. not
before the time Lenny came around) then it should 'just work'.

Good luck,
SH