From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] What provides font 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in Gentoo?
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:17:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111120021721.GA25964@waltdnes.org> (raw)
Specifically, -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1,
is loaded from that file. Here's what lead me to ask...
- I installed xfreecell on a fresh system
- I couldn't get it to start, it complained about not being able to open
a font, but didn't specify which one (thanks !NOT)
- I did some spelunking in the xfreecell tarball in distfiles. Right
near the top of the README file is a statement that says...
"Make sure there is a font named 7x14."
- "xlsfonts | grep 7x14" didn't find anything
- in Google, I found other occurences of the same error message as I got
and then asking how to get the "7x14" font
- there were several people reporting that font-misc-misc did the trick
for them. But it didn't work for me.
- file /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias showed that "7x14" was an alias
for -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1
- The font-misc-misc ebuild appears to install 7x14.pcf.gz, which
contains Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1, a
unicode font
- Out of sheer desperation, I dug through *.pcf.gz files on another
machine, and copied over 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz, which finally got
xfreecell working.
I'd still like to know which ebuild I should've used, rather than
copying over a binary file.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
next reply other threads:[~2011-11-20 2:18 UTC|newest]
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2011-11-20 2:17 waltdnes [this message]
2011-11-20 10:15 ` [gentoo-user] What provides font 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in Gentoo? pk
2011-11-20 20:57 ` [gentoo-user] Help; ISO8859-1 fonts not being installed waltdnes
2011-11-21 9:49 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] " waltdnes
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