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Hey all.
I'm trying to install a music program called Lilypond, for my girlfriend, as an example of how easy (heh) linux is to use.
Now, to use this particular version, I need to install some fonts. ec-fonts-mftraced, to be exact.
The Lilypond site provides downloads for the fonts here
There is an rpm, deb, and tar.gz version, none of which I've managed to install from. I've tried using
rpmunpack | gzip -d | cpio -uidas (kind of) per the instructions:
EC-FONTS-MFTRACED
GNU LilyPond 2.3.x needs TeX (if you are using the TeX backend) and
PostScript Type1 PFA/PFB fonts with full internationalisation support.
By default, LilyPond uses the ec* family.
INSTALLING EC FONTS
The binany RPM and DEB packages should be installable on any RPM or
DEB based system.
If you do not have such a system, install either
* the RPM, like so
rpm2cpio ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.2-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -uid
mktexlsr
* or the DEB,
ar p ec-fonts-mftraced_1.0.2-1_all.deb data.tar.gz | tar zxf -
mktexlsr
BUILDING FROM SOURCE
cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/lilypond co sauter-fonts-mtraced
cd sauter-fonts-mtraced
make all install
mktexlsrI can't get anything to work though, nor can I install the fonts thru KDE control centre.
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Much appreciated,
Thom.
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When you run tar -zxf... on the ...tar.gz file you will end up with a directory. The fonts are probably just sitting in a subdir in that directoy. Change to root and move that dir where the fonts are to:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
Then run:
fc-cache -v
Every subdir in that location is added to the font list (specified in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf). If there is still a problem, you can also add the font dir to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or XF86Config if you are using it still) under the "Files" Section, there are already a few dirs there, so the format is obvious...
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/your_new_fonts_dir"
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rpmunpack doesn't output to stdout. It just writes a .cpio.gz file to the filesystem.
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- Blaise Pascal
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Not quite sure what the significance of that is Xentac - something to do with the '|' piping?
Cheers colnago, I'm gonna try that now. I thought I could do something like that, wasn't sure which font directory to use though.
I'll see how it works...
T
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I tried here to see what happens. The fonts are not in the pkg, you have to actually make them. It gave me a bunch of errors even though I have latex installed and the mf files were there. I will ask around at work, someone there will have run into this before.
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No luck yet, I tried compiling those fonts too, no luck.
In fact I can't compile half the stuff required, it's pretty cack.
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You need t1utils (an easy compile), potrace (or autotrace), tetex, and python so you can compile mftrace.
mftrace PKGBUILD is at the bottom of http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=6450
Then you need to:
cd /usr/share/mftrace/
import filelib
Here's the PKGBUILD for ec-fonts-mftraced:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=6451
Fontforge I think helps it compile faster (??)
All of the above-mentioned packages that aren't available via pacman have been uploaded to ftp.archlinux.org/incoming
fffft!
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