HowTo: Install fonts for LaTeX in Ubuntu 9.04

[rplantz]

This HowTo is for TeXLive on Ubuntu 9.04. It assumes that texlive is installed. It describes how to install the LuxiMono font for use with LaTeX. The concepts here should apply to other fonts.

LuxiMono is a nice font for program code listings in LaTeX. It is available at www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/LuxiMono/.

The important documents are:

a) TeX-on-Debian.* -- available in txt, pdf, and html in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/

b) README.luximono -- came with LuxiMono.

Here are the steps I followed (use sudo before each of the commands in this description to create a system-wide installation):

1. Download LuxiMono.zip and unzip it creating the LuxiMono directory, which contains the files referred to below.

2. Copy the file ul9.zip into the directory

       /usr/local/share/texmf/

and unzip it.

3. Create the directory:

       /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/luxi

and copy the .pfb files into it.

4. Create the directory:

       /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/luxi

and copy the .afm files into it.

5. Move the directory

       /usr/local/share/texmf/dvips

into the directory

       /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/

Note: Apparently the ul9.zip file was created for tetex2. Placement of .map files changed for TeXLive and tetex3. Section 4.3 in TeX-on-Debian states that the .map file should be located:

         /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/luximono/ul9.map

This step places it in:

         /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/config/ul9.map

which worked for me.

If the directory

         /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/config/

already exists, simply move the file ul9.map into it.

6. Create the file

       /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10local.cfg

which contains the line

       Map ul9.map

If the file already exists, simply add the line to it.

7. (Picking up at step 3 in TeX-on-Debian) Run the program update-updmap.

8. Run the program mktexlsr.

9. Run the program updmap-sys.

[samjam]

http://miknight.blogspot.com/2005/ 11/how-to-install-luxi-mono-font-in.html suggests:

sudo updmap --enable MixedMap ul9.map


I found this to be essential, otherwise the luximono text showed up blank in my pdf.

(It still shows up nasty in my dvi)

[knkillname]

Ok, so here is the "for humans beings" way: Just open a terminal and type

sudo getnonfreefonts-sys --all

Done!

[guendalf]

@knkillname: Thanks! That's exactly what I'm looking for as I was getting boring to install these fonts manually.

[kilmarnock]

@knkillname: Thanks!