On 18 Sep 2002 13:51:56 -0400 "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You should not need to do both. > > Defoma font management is a _replacement_ for the part of the > update-ms-fonts script that was commented out; that's why it was > commented out. Right, I understand that this is what is supposed to happen. > The "Right Way" is to not uncomment stuff from the update-ms-fonts > script, but rather to allow Defoma to manage the fonts correctly. If, > for some reason, this doesn't work automatically then you need to > report a bug on this. There already is a bug on this (I think). http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes According to the bugreport: "Defoma does not create symlinks as the previous msttcorefonts package did." and "Changing the /usr/sbin/update-ms-fonts script to the previous behavior by uncommenting the creation of the symlinks and commenting the deletion of the symlinks returns the system to a working state regarding these fonts." Simply installing Defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf.d (also adding relevent FontPath entries in XF86Config-4) did not get things working. Only after I proceeded to modify the script did things work again. I guess it's just a bug. I do appreciate that you've pointed out the *Right Way*, as it's clarified my undestanding of the situation. I'm not exactly a guru :) > Strange that you didn't have defoma installed, though, because the > msttcorefonts package Depends on defoma... how could you install > msttcorefonts without it? I had an older version of msttcorefonts installed. I gather that the defoma dependency is a new one? Though perhaps I'm wrong about this. At any rate, defoma was not installed on my system. I ended up doing an apt-get remove --purge msttcorefonts, and then apt-get install msttcorefonts to make sure that nothing was left over from the old installation. I have no idea if this was necessary or not, but I didn't think this could hurt. I think defoma was installed at the time of my fresh installation as of this morning. From other posts, it appears that msttcorefonts doesn't currently depend upon x-ttcidfont-conf.d; is this indeed the case? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
