>From 4452298c139d3af3abb5af1d1a3a40754851e0b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:47:58 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] FAQ-BUILD.txt: Append reference to manual LaTeX package install Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Paul, So, this is the update of FAQ-BUILD.txt. Feel free to wordsmith as you like before pushing out. Thanks, Akira -- FAQ-BUILD.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/FAQ-BUILD.txt b/FAQ-BUILD.txt index 6627bbb..4a4d8fb 100644 --- a/FAQ-BUILD.txt +++ b/FAQ-BUILD.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ find it? A. The "pdflatex" package is a variant of Don Knuth's - digital typesetting program. On Ubuntu Trusty, + digital typesetting program. On Ubuntu Trusty and Xenial, installing the following set of packages suffices: texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra psutils @@ -83,3 +83,34 @@ so if it happens, please let me know. Please send me the perfbook.log output (or perfbook-1c.log output, depending on which you were building) so that I can fix the scripts. + +8. Some of experimental targets for alternative font won't build + due to lack of necessary packages such as "newtxtt". How can I + install those packages? + + A. Simple answer would be "Upgrade to a recent TeX + distribution such as TeX Live 2016". + Upgrading Linux distribution (e.g. to Ubuntu Xenial) + would be another option. + If you want to manually install individual packages, + refer to "Method 3" in: + + http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73016/ + + For font packages such as "newtxtt" and "nimbus15", + you also need to update font-map database. See: + + http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88423/ + + Note: If available, <package>.tds.zip would relieve you + from figuring out where to put unpacked files. Also, + font packages should be copied to TEXMFLOCAL rather than + TEXFMHOME. + + Following is a list of links to optional packages as of + March 2017: + + https://www.ctan.org/pkg/newtxtt + https://www.ctan.org/pkg/nimbus15 + https://www.ctan.org/pkg/inconsolata + https://www.ctan.org/pkg/mathastext -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe perfbook" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html