Newbie installation problems

Newbie installation problems

[Vincent De Groote]

Hello,

I've just installed teTex and Context packages (no previous
installations).  When I run 
texexec on a sample file (\starttext \framed{Does it work?} \stoptext),
texexec stops with the following lines:


> bodyfont        : 12pt rm is loaded
> kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12
> mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> 
> kpathsea: Running mktexmf ec-lmr12
> ! I can't find file `ec-lmr12'.
> <*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12
> 
> Please type another input file name
> ! Emergency stop.
> <*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12
> 
> Transcript written on mfput.log.
> grep: ec-lmr12.log: No such file or directory
> mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12' failed to ma                                                             ke ec-lmr12.tfm.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> ! Font \*12ptrmtfrm*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
> <to be read again>
>                    \relax
> \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier
>                                                   \let \localrelativefontsiz...
> 
> \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname
>                                                   \tryingfontfalse \fi
> <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize
>                                                   \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr...
> 
> \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies
>                                                   \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar...
> <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle }
>                                            \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if...
> ...
> l.1
>     \starttext
> ?

I suppose it's a font problem, but where can I find these fonts, and how should I install them ?

I also have a problem with "texexec --version" which reports:


> TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
> 
>                texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006
>                    tex : unknown
>                context : ver: 2006.07.28 23:56
>                cont-en : unknown
>                cont-cz : unknown
>                cont-de : unknown
>                cont-nl : unknown
>                cont-uk : unknown
> 
>         total run time : 1 seconds
> 
>                warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead




Can anybody help me ?
Thanks for your replies.

Vincent De Groote

Re: Newbie installation problems

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> I suppose it's a font problem, but where can I find these fonts, and
> how should I install them ?

Right, it's the latin-modern font problem.  If you're using Debian
testing/unstable, you can probably just do

apt-get install lmodern

to install lmodern v1.00.  Ubuntu gives you v0.92, which isn't recent
enough.  You can install the Debian package on Ubuntu but it needs a
bit of work (see my earlier messages in the Ubuntu thread about a week
ago).

If you're not using Debian or Ubuntu, you can install it by hand from
CTAN.

-Sanjoy

`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.