From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from server1.mdy.univie.ac.at (server1.mdy.univie.ac.at [131.130.40.17]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B211A2E7 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 07:26:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from there (iota.mdy.univie.ac.at [131.130.40.21]) by server1.mdy.univie.ac.at (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EC4658050 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:27:06 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Tibor Rudas To: Gentoo Developer List Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:27:01 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011212132706.3EC4658050@server1.mdy.univie.ac.at> Subject: [gentoo-dev] TeX/LaTeX works too... Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: f72cf661-080a-44e9-9e1d-b70962f01d0f X-Archives-Hash: 8de114a3f7667b6a3ed1603d2713249f if root changes VARTEXFONTS to a dir with global write permissions (and sticky bit) set so that xdvi and dvips can write the generated fonts+metrics when they are called by a user. The default seems to be /var/cache/fonts which does not exist. you can either create that and adjust the permissions. I set it to /var/lib/texmf/fonts which I created and adjusted permissions since /var/lib/texmf already exists. (this font-dir can then also periodically be cleaned do free disk-space...). The whole thing can also be adjusted by calling 'texconfig' (which looks better if dialog is installed ;) and adjusting the parameters for "FONTS". regards tigor