[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

[Neal Becker]

It's not a path issue at all:

kpsewhich --expand-path=\$TEXMFHOME

[nbecker at nbecker5 ~]$ PATH=/usr/share/texlive-2008/bin/x86_64-linux/:$PATH
[nbecker at nbecker5 ~]$ kpsewhich --expand-path=\$TEXMFHOME

[nbecker at nbecker5 ~]$ which kpsewhich
/usr/share/texlive-2008/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich


On 1/28/09, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have tried to symlink kpsewhich to the directory which is at the
> beginning of my PATH. If I do it with kpsewhich 2007, then kpsewhich
> --expand-path=\$TEXMFHOME reports /home/wagner/texmf. If I do it with
> kpsewhich 2008, it reports ~/texmf. Thus it seems that symliks work
> unless there is another kind of problem. Probably more difficult
> problems can only be detected by strace.
>
> 2009/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>>> 2009/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>>> > On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Akira Kakuto wrote:
>>> >> > [nbecker at nbecker5 ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich
>>> >> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2009-01-27 14:47 /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich
>>> >> > ->
>>> >> > /usr/share/texlive-2008/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Yup, that's the correct kpsewhich.  Why doesn't it work?
>>> >>
>>> >> You have to remove the link /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich.
>>> >> The place of kpsewhich:
>>> >> /usr/share/texlive-2008/bin/x86_64-linux/
>>> >> is important.
>>> >>
>>> >> Best,
>>> >> Akira
>>> >
>>> > So are you saying that the symlink option that tlinstall offered and I
>>> > used doesn't actually work?  I have to put the binaries into my path?
>>>
>>> I have seen a lot of weird errors caused by clashes between TL and
>>> residues of teTeX. These clashes are distro dependent and some
>>> incomplete version of teTeX is installed due to dependencies even if
>>> you select not to install it. The safest way is to put the bin path of
>>> TL to the beginning of your PATH as suggested at the end of
>>> installation.
>>
>> If symlinks don't work reliably I suggest adding a warning to tlinstall,
>> or
>> just deprecate them completely.
>>
>>
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> Zdeněk Wagner
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> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
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