apparently installing X fixed it. Thank you all. Whether it was an updated package, a newly installed one, or Xorg itself I will never know but I thank you for your help :) Hopefully this can help someone in return. On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Chisum Lindauer <clindauer at gmail.com>wrote: > I am using CentOS (From what I can tell a redhat offshoot for enterprise > development). It uses yum. I have verified fontconfig is installed, > however when I use fc-list it give a null list. > > IE: > # fc-list > # > > Freetype is installed too, and I looked for packages containing common > fonts and found none. So i installed some other dpi fonts and still receive > an empty fc-list result. > Any clue? X is not installed seeing if that will fix the problem though it > seems x shouldn't need to be installed for fonts to install properly. I > will try it and any suggestions here. If I can keep only yum installs I > want to. Makes maintaining easier. > > Thanks. >