Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Old style fonts

[localghost]

[...] Open a console and type in:

sudo getnonfreefonts -a

That should install it, and some others. [...]

It's better to install these fonts for the whole system.

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sudo getnonfreefonts-sys -a

[melekzedek]

Thanks for the info on

sudo getnonfreefonts-sys -a

At first I couldn't make the installation, since there was some problem with the file

/usr/bin/getnonfreefonts

in Ubuntu 9.04.

The line where it read

my $TL_version='2007';

should be changed to

my $TL_version='2009';

Even after making this, something isn't properly working, since I receive the following message

--2009-09-15 13:44:33-- ftp://tug.org/tex/getnonfreefonts/getfont2009
=> `getfont2009'
Resolving tug.org... 130.225.2.178
Connecting to tug.org|130.225.2.178|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /tex/getnonfreefonts ... done.
==> SIZE getfont2009 ... 18916
==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 130.225.2.178 port 55409: No route to host
Can't open perl script "./getfont2009": No such file or directory

texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.

Updating map files (updmap-sys)... [done]

Does anyone had the same problem?

[phi]

It seems that you are mixing the script from TeX Live 2007 (included in Ubuntu) with the unreleased TeX Live 2009 distribution. getnonfreefonts form TeX Live 2009 works fine for me. Make sure that you have uninstalled TeX Live 2007 before installing TeX Live 2009.

[melekzedek]

I was just following the tips of

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/394780, but in my case it doesn't work also. Well, I think I will wait for Ubuntu 9.10 and see if this problem was fixed.

[phi]

I don't think the patch posted in the bug report is fine. Ubuntu comes with TeX Live 2007, and it is very likely that something breaks if only one script is edited to use files from the (still unreleased!) 2009 version. OTOH, I have no idea whether TeX Live 2009 will make it to the Ubuntu repositories. Perhaps it's easier to uninstall TeX Live 2007 and install TeX Live 2008 or 2009 manually.