[tex-live] [pretest] update of xetex failed:

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-04-27 23:52 GMT+02:00 Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:

> Hi Sebastian,
>
>     xetex: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1:
>     cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> xetex innately depends on a system-installed libfontconfig, by design.
> There is no way to avoid this.  Before your note, we have never gotten a
> bug report about any missing libfontconfig (and even you said it was not
> actually missing, only that it "could" be -- anything "could" be
> missing), because it is a core part of how any Unix-ish system finds
> fonts these days.  Even headless servers usually end up having X
> utilities installed.
>
> I have tried on Fedora 17 which is quite old and it works.


>     Is there any procedure which can I use to fix the aborted update
>     process?
>
> If you need to ... I doubt you have a pressing need for the xetex flavor
> of the brand-new lollipop format :).
>
>     From the perspective of an user I don't know what to do
>     after fixing the problem?
>
> You can rerun the command that failed:
> fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luajittex --byfmt xelollipop
>
> Thanks for the report,
> karl
>
>


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Zdeněk Wagner
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