TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ TL 2012 | Flawed Installation on Linux (CentOS 5.8)

[M.A]

Hi everybody,

I have installed TeX Live 2012 on a Linux CentOS 5.8 via the user "root". The installation has been placed at "/usr/local/texlive/2012".
but for some reason, some pk font files were placed at "/root/.texlive2012/texmf-var/fonts/pk".

Now, when I run

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dvips -Ppk input.tex

via the user "root", everything is fine. However, when I run the same command from other user accounts (e.g user1) it issues missing fonts error since dvips is not able to find fonts in the directory "/root/.texlive2012/texmf-var/fonts/pk".


I tried copying the contents of "/root/.texlive2012/texmf-var/fonts/pk" to various places like

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/home/user1/.texlive2012/texmf-var/fonts/pk
/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/pk
/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-var/fonts/pk

and the I ran updmap, texhash to update the file name database, but it didn't work.
I tried also to add user1 to the group in the permissions of "/root/.texlive2012/texmf-var/fonts/pk" and its sub-folders, but also it didn't work.

Do you have any hint how to resolve this?

Note: I am a beginner on Linux, so I am sorry if the question was simple.


Regards,

[M.A]

The problem has been resolved.

[localghost]

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Thorsten

[M.A]

thanks for your reply. Actually, the problem has been resolved when I tried it yesterday, so I don't know exactly what is the solution if it happens again!