Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with
> similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font:
>
> "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
>
> It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both
> have the same fonts installed. So, what fonts need to be installed, or
> what isn't configured properly?
Here's how you can find out. In /usr/lib/X11/fonts there are a number of
directories. Each of the directories will have a fonts.alias file or a
fonts.scale file in it. You can search these for the above font by using
find. Run this:
find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.scale -o -name fonts.alias \) -exec grep
-i -e '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-.*-.*-120-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*' {} \; -ls
and if that doesn't get you the file try:
find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.scale -o -name fonts.alias \) -exec grep
-i -e '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*' {} \; -ls
if that doesn't work then
find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.scale -o -name fonts.alias \) -exec grep
-i -e '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*' {} \; -ls
and so on until you find the best match (the one with the most elements
matching).
Then take the filename which it was grep'ed from and do
dpkg --search <filename>
to find the package. Simple huh? 8) X has a fancy way of specifying fonts
which is very flexible (more flexible than a simple find/grep command can locate
exactly the same).
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
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