General ⇒ PDFLaTeX on Ubuntu 11.10 fails

[Marek]

Hi,

adjusting LaTeX for my needs has been for me a fathomless thing since I used LaTeX. Could you write me how to enforce LaTeX, under Ubuntu 11.10, that commands for Polish language would be respected (the language support for polish is installed for the system)? Copying, from internet resources, commands like

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\usepackage{polski}
\usepackage[latin2]{inputenc}

or

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

returns a mysterious message

kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1095
! I can't find file `ecrm1095'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ecrm1095.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095' failed to make ecrm1095.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10.95=ecrm1095 at 10.95pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not
found.
<to be read again>
relax
l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont

?

Additionally texconfig tells:

In Debian, fmtutil.cnf, the format configuration file, is a generated file.
The actual configuration files are in /etc/texmf/fmt.d.
Please read the update-fmtutil(1) manpage and edit those files.

Instead of editing, you will now be shown fmtutil.cnf in a pager.

What move should I do? Is there any simple way to use latex with polish without reading tenths of pages about it? Or is there any short tutorial, in one piece, about it?
Thank you in advance (and forgive my edgy mood, but in my opinion such things should be adjustable in a more intuitive way).

[sommerfee]

The so-called EC fonts seem to be missing in your TeX system.

How have you installed your TeX system? If you have installed it using the Ubuntu package manager, open a console window and type:

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sudo apt-get install texlive-full

This way you'll install the whole TeXlive distribution. This may sound a little bit overkill, but IMHO this is the easiest way not struggling with missing fonts, packages etc.

(An alternative option would be removing the TeX system and install TL2011 instead.)

[Marek]

As You adviced, I run
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
and it was solution of my problem. Thank You very much.

By the way, do You know whether does exist any pedagogical tutorial concerning LeTeX configuration and system contents? For example, I am always afraid to try tell LaTeX that my document should be written with the use of such and such font. I do not know a command which lists in a sample document names and samples of fonts accessible in the system.
Thank You. Marek.