On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:50:41PM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I have just performed an 'apt-get install bitchx' on a debian x86 Etch > system, but there seems to be a problem with with the package configuration. > > The install finishes with a warning: > Warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist.. > > This is understandable, as it seems that the installation should have > been looking for the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc > > Running the application produces warning such as: > bitchx: unable to open font "default8x16", trying "fixed".... > Warning: Cannot convert string "default8x16" to type FontStruct > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > > so it does seem that it is looking in the wrong place for fonts :( > > Does this indicate an error in the package? Sounds like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=362325 though it should have been fixed :/ Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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