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firepol

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2008-10-08

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mkfontdir and mkfontscale: command not found

Hi,

I think that I did a dirty system upgrade. I reinstalled xorg, xorg server several times and I get always the same error when I arrive at the point of installing the fonts.

E.g. pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts

I get the following errors:

mkfontscale: command not found
mkfontdir: : command not found

Previously I had also the error: fc-cache: command not found
this one was solved by I installed fontconfig

What else should I install to get the mkfontdir and mkfontscale commands?

Thank you very much for letting me know.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: mkfontdir and mkfontscale: command not found

pacman -S xorg-font-utils

firepol

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 3

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Re: mkfontdir and mkfontscale: command not found

Thank you, the commands now work, but xorg complains again about fonts, it says that it can't find the "fixed" font.

I installed (and re-installed with the -f option) the 75dpi, 100dpi and misc fonts, but nothing changed

I reinstalled all the xorg packages, by using the command pacman -Sf xorg xorg-server etc. (I found a list in the wiki) but still the same problem...

Do you know an effective way (don't tell me to reformat and re-install, we are not talking about Windows here...) to re-install all the xorg components (fonts included) even if pacman sees them as already installed?

I already did pacman -Su but nothing changed...

Thanks for some hints... I will ask in the meanwhile also in another area of the forum about pacman...

SkonesMickLoud

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From: The D of C

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 178

Re: mkfontdir and mkfontscale: command not found

Do you know an effective way (don't tell me to reformat and re-install, we are not talking about Windows here...) to re-install all the xorg components (fonts included) even if pacman sees them as already installed?

Just pacman -S them again.  It should tell you that whatever you're trying to install will be reinstalled.  For instance (paraphrased a bit):

pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts
warning: ttf-ms-fonts.x.x.x is up to date -- reinstalling
Proceed? [Y/n]