[Rd] URW Fonts Description in Installation and Administration Manual

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On Wed, 30-12-2015, at 21:08, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> On 30 December 2015 at 20:07, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> | 
> | 
> | 
> | On Wed, 30-12-2015, at 12:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> | > On 30 December 2015 at 05:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
> | > | Good day,
> | > | 
> | > | In section A.2, the manual advises "Linux users will want the urw-fonts package". However, this package only seems to be available for RedHat Linux and Fedora Linux. What about for Debian or Ubuntu ? There is no urw-fonts package for them. Are there any other packages not mentioned that are important for these two distributions ?
> | >
> | > edd at max:~$ apt-cache search urw | grep texlive
> | > texlive-fonts-recommended - TeX Live: Recommended fonts
> | > texlive-fonts-extra - TeX Live: Additional fonts
> | > edd at max:~$ 
> | 
> | Humm... on a Debian system (mix of unstable and testing) that shows
> | nothing.
>
> Really? I just fired up Docker instance with Debian 8.2 and saw it there, also
>
>   https://packages.debian.org/sid/texlive-fonts-recommended
>   https://packages.debian.org/sid/texlive-fonts-extra
>
> has it.  Otherwise, agreed that a search for URW reveals more

Yes, that is true. But I tried on another testing+unstable system and still

apt-cache search urw | grep texlive

gives me nothing.



> packages. Methinks this issue is specific to Dario's setup...

And mine might also be kind of strange :-). Oh well.



>
> Dirk


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