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Re: almost there
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- Subject: Re: almost there
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 07:58:56 -0400
>>
>> Your fonts.dir and fonts.aliases files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts are
>> corrupted either rebuild them or copy the fonts from a Linux machine
>they certainly appear to be ok... they are directly from the
>xfree86-4.0-fonts.tar.bz2 file, and when I look at those files after
>decompressing and untarring, they look fine
I do not think they are Ok, otherwise you should not get errors.
>I tried downloading again from a different mirror, and re-installed,
>but the same thing happens
>are there binary/text mount issues that could be involved? I tried
>both with /, /usr/lib, and /usr/bin mounted in binmode and texmode, but
>with the same results
Could be.
>I don't need to gunzip the individual font files, do I?
>if you still think I need to rebuild them, how do I do that? mkfontdir?
Yes. Add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path.
then each subdirectory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts,
run mkdfondir.
Suhaib
>thanks,
>-JT