PEBKAC 2008 ;) [was: Re: Stupid Ubuntu 8.10]

[NoOp]

On 11/08/2008 02:18 AM, vafa at aol.com.au wrote:
> for example if you copy a directory (which contains fonts) to
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype by the command:
> 
> sudo cp -r fontsdirname? /usr/share/fonts/truetype
> 
> then those fonts will not appear in openoffice. I did not have this
> problem in Ubuntu 8.04. And if you know look at
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype you see the directory that you have copied
> but it is ``unreadable''.
> 
> It is necessary most of the times to copy directories and files to
> the root directory where TeX is installed. Ubuntu 8.04 had no
> problem.
>

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ