Re: all my fonts go away.

2005-10-10 Thread Ulrich Fürst
Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And -- dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig did not regenerate the package. Well, it shouldn't. It just asks you the same questions you were asked the first time you installed it. > But the perplexing thing is that when I happened to reboot, all the > proble

Re: all my fonts go away.

2005-10-09 Thread Laura Creighton
Well, I have fixed my problem, but I don't understand exactly why I have. I decided that I really needed to get libfontcong regenerated. so I made a /usr/lib/fontconfigs and moved the /usr/lib/*fontc* there, so that I could move them back if I couldn't get things to biuld. And -- dpkg-reconfigure

Re: all my fonts go away.

2005-10-08 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: Laura Creighton wrote: Alas, this did not work. I do not think that dkpg --set-selections actually makes my machine go off and download the new packages and reinstalls them. Correct? Laura You need an "aptitude upgrade" in there, I think after the "set". Sorry, I'm somethin

Re: all my fonts go away.

2005-10-08 Thread Wulfy
Laura Creighton wrote: Alas, this did not work. I do not think that dkpg --set-selections actually makes my machine go off and download the new packages and reinstalls them. Correct? Laura You need an "aptitude upgrade" in there, I think after the "set". Sorry, I'm something of a newbie m

Re: all my fonts go away.

2005-10-08 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:55:20 BST, Wulfy writes: >Laura Creighton wrote: > >>Speaking of commands unknown to me, a debian command that says, 'find >>out every package I have loaded and reinstall every last one of them a >>second time' would also be useful. I don't know any command like

Re: all my fonts go away.

2005-10-08 Thread Wulfy
Laura Creighton wrote: Speaking of commands unknown to me, a debian command that says, 'find out every package I have loaded and reinstall every last one of them a second time' would also be useful. I don't know any command like that, or a way to get aptitude to spit out a list of all the packa

all my fonts go away.

2005-10-08 Thread Laura Creighton
I have a recurring problem. Some debian package which I am automatically updating is destroying something so that all my KDE applications have no fonts at all. I get nothing but silly little boxes. Xterm windows, and firefox display fine -- this seems to be a purely debian problem. The fonts ar