Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ How do I install fonts?

[thesourceofx]

I suppose that I might as well add this. I tried installing another font with tlmgr...the font is Arev...and when I try to use it with

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{arev}

I get this error:

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kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1000.mf
name = ecrm1000, rootname = ecrm, pointsize = 1000
mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile!
Cannot find ecrm1000.mf.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
nd.
<to be read again>
                   relax
l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont

Any idea why that's happening?

[phi]

This works for me:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{arev}
\begin{document}
a
\end{document}

So please post a minimum example that exhibits this error. As a side note, you don't have to load the fontenc package manually; it is loaded automatically by the arev package.

[thesourceofx]

This exhibits the same error that I posted earlier:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{arev}

\begin{document}
Hello World
\end{document}

So I really don't know what to do. Something must be missing for me, I just have no idea what it is and I don't have the ability to download the entire distribution of LaTeX on this crappy internet connection just to make sure.

[localghost]

Possibly your map files are completely messed up. Open a command prompt with administrator rights and try to repair this at least for the arev font package.

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updmap-sys --enable Map=arev.map

An according command may solve this issue for the lxfonts.

[thesourceofx]

So I tried that and it didn't work, but I'm at a place with good internet so I'm trying to download more of the package via TeX Live. We'll see if that solves it.

[thesourceofx]

Alright, so last night I downloaded the "Extra Fonts" and "Recommended LaTeX Packages" from TeX Live and now I appear to be able to use all the fonts that it downloaded, so I guess whatever it did fixed the problem with the metric (TMF) files.