getnonfreefonts: various issues

[Nils Pickert]

Binary package hint: texlive-base-bin

Hi.

getnonfreefonts from the texlive distribution has some problems in Edgy, which are already solved in the upstream version AFAIK. It downloads a script called getfont from ftp://tug.org/tex/getnonfreefonts/, which is called with #!/bin/sh and fails, it should either be #!/bin/bash or (BETTER:) the newer script getfont2006, which is perl based and should not produce any problem...

if you run getnonfreefonts not as root, it can't change the map-files. This can be solved by a local map file for each user, I didn't find any solution on google or the forums how to generate a local map-file. Is this possible at all?

thanks,
Nils

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

Hi all!
(Debian maintainer speaking here)
The current packages in Debian fixed the invocation of getnonfreefonts to /bin/bash, which should propagate down to getfont.

If you have this problem, could you test it in the following way: Change the shebang line in /usr/bin/getnonfreefonts from /bin/sh to /bin/bash and start the script again. Then it should work.

Concerning the second question, please take a look at the documentation of teTeX3, or TeX Live, or also TeX-on-Debian which is shipped in tex-common, and hopefully also in Ubuntu. You just have to put config files into .texmf-config.

Ciao
Norbert

[Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen)]

Thanks for the bug report. I'm closing it because the bug has been fixed in Feisty.

texlive-bin (2005.dfsg.2-7) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * change shebang for getnonfreefonts to /bin/bash (Closes: #398112)
   * fix the texdoctk perl errors (Closes: #402651)
   * include xdvi upstream fix for segfault on hitting g with -nogrey
     (Closes: #369569)

[Nils Pickert (nils-mipi)]

Cool. Thanks a lot!