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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>



             reply	other threads:[~2011-11-20  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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