Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: > > Prior to installing Debian 2.0 my xfstt font server worked fine. I > > understand that I need to load xfstt with port 7101, but it still > > doesn't work. > > hmmm what version of xfstt are you installing? did you get i tfrom Debian > 2.0 (hamm) or from slink? > > xfstt 0.9.7 is the version in hamm. That was before I became maintainer. > ONLY version sprior to 0.9.9-3 (or so) need to be on port 7101. >
I am running xfstt 0.9.7. > xfstt 0.9.7 still uses port 7100 > > > I installed the debian package for xfstt. What exactly do > > I need to do to make this work. > > where are your fonts? The old location (for 0.9.7) is /var/ttfonts > the NEW location (as of 0.9.9-1) is /usr/share/fonts/truetype My fonts are in /var/ttfonts. > > check teh man page and the docs to see where yours should be > > I don't doubt there will be confusion her ebecause... > I became maintainer after the hamm freeze. That means I couldn't > make any of these changes...so while the packages in slink (next version... > unstable now) have these changes (which people have been talkin gabout) they > do NOT exist in the hamm version. > > > Sometimes installing the Debian package > > can be more of pain than just installing it manually. When I installed > > xfstt before upgrading it took me about 10 minutes to get it working, I > > installed in manually not with a debian package. I had xfstt loading in > > a startup script so it was available everytime my system boots. Does > > installing the Debian package automatically load xfstt, or do I have to > > do that myself. If I type xfstt in my shell nothing happens. > > Th ecurrent versions (prior to 0.9.9) have a script in init.d to startup > xfstt automagically on startup. I added this and just last night uploaded a > new version which closes the remaining bugs in this system. > > I am sorry you have had troubles...many of these things I can't fix in a deb > file because it needs to be compatible with all setups... > in this package that has menat requiring manual intervention for > a few of the upgrades... > I have tried to confine this a bit and hopefully starting with > 0.9.9-4 upgrades should require no manual intervention. Instead of messing around with an old version of xfstt sould I just get the newer version? > > -Steve > Debian xfstt maintainer > > -- > /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>------------ */ > E-mail "Bumper Stickers": > "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" > "honk if you Love Linux" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature -- Thanks, Keith http://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux Debian GNU/Linux
