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#1 2010-01-15 05:23:07
- kjslag
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- Registered: 2009-11-03
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"pacman -Qk ttf-ms-fonts" gives strange output
sudo pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts
...
pacman -Qk ttf-ms-fonts
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/ (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/andale32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/arial32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/arialb32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/comic32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/courie32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/georgi32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/impact32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/times32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/trebuc32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/verdan32.exe (No such file or directory)
warning: ttf-ms-fonts: /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/webdin32.exe (No such file or directory)
ttf-ms-fonts: 18 total files, 12 missing file(s)
why are /tmp files required? and why are they missing right after an install?
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#2 2010-01-15 05:32:01
- Allan
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Re: "pacman -Qk ttf-ms-fonts" gives strange output
We cannot distribute modified files dues to the licence of ttf-ms-fonts so the are extracted onto the system during the post_install stages.
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#3 2010-01-15 05:33:46
- bernarcher
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Re: "pacman -Qk ttf-ms-fonts" gives strange output
ttf-ms-fonts does not directly load those fonts but the .exe files listed. These need to be extracted (using the cabextract program which was loaded as dependency) in order to install the fonts. Afterwards the files in /tmp are not needed anymore, thus -Qk might not find them anymore.
With the xfontsel application you can check if the fonts have really been installed,
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#4 2010-01-15 11:02:04
- Pierre
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Re: "pacman -Qk ttf-ms-fonts" gives strange output
Maybe you should report a bug. This package is simply invalid and should be removed.
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