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I am trying to install the 'MinionPro' font to be used with LaTeX on Ubuntu 16.04. I downloaded the files and followed instructions from here. I am having trouble with section 7:

7) Add the line

 Map MinionPro.map

to your updmap.cfg. Refresh the file database and run updmap:

I appear to have multiple updmap.cfg files:

updmap will read the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):
  /root/.texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
updmap may write changes to the following updmap.cfg file:
  /root/.texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg

I have tried adding the appropriate line in each by running:

sudo gedit /root/.texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg

changing the file path each time. When I subsequently run 

sudo mktexlsr
sudo updmap

I get a whole list of errors being returned, including:

updmap [WARNING]: font MinionPro-MediumItSubh-Base-aa is defined multiple times:

updmap [WARNING]: MinionPro.map (from /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)

updmap [WARNING]: MinionPro (from /root/.texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg) (used)

updmap [WARNING]: font MinionPro-MediumItSubh-integral is defined multiple times:

updmap [WARNING]: MinionPro.map (from /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)

Any thoughts as to the problem?

Thanks

Ruben
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N.Crouch
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! In a previous version of the OP you talked about using the font in TeXmaker -- which is "only" an editor for .tex manuscripts, hence independant from the actual problem as you need to tell the actual software (LaTeX) on how to handle the font. – Ruben Jan 16 '17 at 04:17
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    I had a very similar problem once: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/146894/installing-eb-garamond-for-pdflatex-encore (its solution and the comments to the OP might help you). – Ruben Jan 16 '17 at 04:19
  • Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a solution in the previous post – N.Crouch Jan 16 '17 at 18:13
  • Why don't you use xelatex and fontspec? Are a few microtype functions really worth the trouble? –  Jan 16 '17 at 18:59
  • I have been using TexMaker for a couple of years to write manuscripts and never had a problem before, so saw no reason to change. Having decided that I had probably broken tex-live and tex-common with all my fiddling I purged all instances from my machine (and TexMaker for some element of totality). I will run sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex to install. Can you recommend a link for installing the minion font? – N.Crouch Jan 16 '17 at 19:30
  • This is not an issue of problems or editors. It's that installing fonts in LaTeX is unbelievably complicated. With xelatex or lualatex, there is no need for that. Minion is a paid font, but you can get it installing Acrobat Reader or some of the Adobe programs and install it on your system (I had supposed you already had the .otf fonts, because you tried to install the package). –  Jan 16 '17 at 20:18
  • I will give xelatex a try. I found a link on how to specify the .otf fonts (yes, I already have them) Thanks – N.Crouch Jan 16 '17 at 20:37
  • I changed TexMaker to XeLaTeX, put the minionpro files in the directory of the document I am interested in and voila! Thanks @Joseph – N.Crouch Jan 16 '17 at 21:08
  • @N.Crouch, you can also install those fonts system-wide. If you're on Linux, just make a .fonts folder in /home/user, copy the files there, and you're done. –  Jan 16 '17 at 21:37

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