** Also affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904043
Title:
installed fonts are not actually available for use
Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “xfonts-100dpi” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The xfonts-75dpi package is also affected.
I installed ubuntu and found that certain standard X fonts such as
adobe-courier were not available. Curiously, installing the xfonts-
75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages did *not* fix the problem. The fonts
remained unavailable. They did not show up with xfontsel and when
used (e.g. by xterm -fn) they are subsitututed by other fonts. Even
more curiously, a bit of probing revealed that the font files were
actually present in /usr/share/fonts/X11.
Based on this article from 2008, it appears that this is a long
standing and pervasive problem:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2008/02/where_did_the_courier_and_helv_1.html
I followed the method described in this article and added
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/Type1</dir>
<dir>usr/share/fonts/X11</dir>
to the file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf and found that this
made the fonts available.
So in short, the installer for these fonts is broken. It installs the
files but does not make the necessary changes to the font
configuration files so that the fonts can actually be used.
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
xfonts-100dpi:
Installed: 1:1.0.3
Candidate: 1:1.0.3
Version table:
*** 1:1.0.3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
adrian> apt-cache policy xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-75dpi:
Installed: 1:1.0.3
Candidate: 1:1.0.3
Version table:
*** 1:1.0.3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic-pae 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 13 20:09:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: xfonts-100dpi
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-10 (3 days ago)
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