XeTeX ⇒ XeLaTeX - fonts available only with sudo!

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Hi all,

I installed some otf fonts in my Ubuntu machine, under the /usr/local/share/fonts directory, and run fc-cache -f -v as told by the instructions I found over internet. Supposedly, the fonts are now correctly installed in my computer.

Running XeLaTeX with fontspec, however, did not recognize the fonts. Even if I copy some font to the directory where the TeX file is (and using ExternalLocation in fontspec) XeLaTeX does not get the font. However, I tried with sudo (that is, sudo xelatex file.tex) and it worked!

It seems like Xe(La)TeX does not have the right permissions to access the font files. How can I solve this problem? In my previous Ubuntu installation I did not have this problem...

Keta

[Keta]

More things:

I copied more font files to the mentioned directory, and I did not run fs-cache afterwards. XeLaTeX DOES recognize these new files. Still, the files mentioned in the previous post are not accessible unless I use sudo. What's happening?