terminus not available after karmic upgrade - reinstall fixes

[AmenophisIII]

Binary package hint: xfonts-terminus

hey

i upgraded 9.04 to 9.10 two days ago. i had xfonts-terminus installed before and it was upgraded in the process, but somehow the font was not available to any programs afterwards (tested abiword, openoffice, nfoview). executing "aptitude reinstall xfonts-terminus" fixed this problem. i am on amd64 with a quite standard ubuntu/gnome setup. any other infos needed?

[Dmitry G. (hint)]

Same bug after upgrade ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04
apt remove xfonts-terminus; apt install xfonts-terminus
not fix the bug :(

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stefan Tauner (stefanct)]

That would actually mean that the package now is completely broken. Have you tried restarting your desktop session (e.g., reboot)? Fonts are sometimes not picked up without that...

[Adam Hallgat (hallgat)]

sudo apt purge xfonts-terminus
sudo apt install xfonts-terminus
sudo fc-cache -f -v (terminus is not among the listed fonts)
(reboot)

Terminus font is not selectable anywhere.

[Adam Hallgat (hallgat)]

Wait... This is not the ticket for Ubuntu 20.04. It this same problem is present in 20.04