As it seems many users have a problem with this in Debian and/or Ubuntu. I have not seen a good an straightforward guide in various forums. Finally I found it out, just by reading the documentation. I'll answer my own post below.
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Manual font installation. Or what do you mean? – Speravir Apr 25 '13 at 23:32
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Yes, that is what I mean. Still the procedure is different. – Johannes Linkels Apr 26 '13 at 00:04
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First, find the font to install. http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/allfonts.html is an excellent place. It provides pointers to the fonts files. In my case I tried to install emerald.
The font can be downloaded from a CTAN mirror: http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/. Download the .zip, and unzip it in a temporary directory. Once unzipped, a directory tree has been created which looks like:
emerald--doc
\-fonts
\-other
\-tex
Now the correct guide for installation on Debian can be found here: http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/TeX-on-Debian/ch4.html Proceed to section 4.3.
The intention is to install the font files in TEXMFLOCAL. In Debian, this defaults to /usr/local/share/texmf/. This is not obvious, as this directory is empty and no-one would assume something is to be installed here.
In case something has already been installed, use this recursive copy command:
emerald$ sudo rsync -auv ../emerald/ /usr/local/share/texmf/.
Note that this command must be issued from the emerald temporary directory as mentioned before. This will create a directory tree which looks like:
/usr/local/share/texmf--docs--
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\-fonts--afm
| \-map
| \-tfm
| \-type1
| \-vf
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\-other--
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\-tex--
When this is done correctly, follow steps 1-5 exactly as described on the Debian installation guide. Command have to be entered as root.
Finally, a MWE:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{emerald}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\normalfont\ECFJD
\lipsum
\end{document}
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