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Okay I know there have been posted very similar questions like these. However their solutions do not seem to work in my case.

I tried to install Mathtime Pro 2. I have texlive 2013 and Ubuntu 14.04. I first did found this topic: Help using MathTime Pro 2 fonts in Ubuntu Linux with tex-live after which it refers to Problems installing MathTime Professional 2 font on TexLive.

I tried their solutions but I still keep getting the error

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 4+0/600 --dpi 2400 mt2exf
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for mt2exf.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
 )
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file mt2exf): Font mt2exf at 2400 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

The log file from the installer provided by Problems installing MathTime Professional 2 font on TexLive can be found here: http://pastebin.com/Gk9AHuFP

I also tried with the lite version but that does not seem to work either.

I have to note that I recently also installed MinionPro font. During the install of that font I also stumbled onto problems.

I hope someone can help me with this problem.

--edit--

So I removed all my texlive installations and all files and folders. I downloaded the new texlive version, 2014, and installed it using the installer. I installed it with the following settings:

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Now where do I need to put (merge) the texmf folder of mtpro2? /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local or /usr/local/share/texmf or ~/.texmf?

Afterwhich I need to run 

sudo texhash
sudo updmap-sys --disable mt-belleek.map --nomkmap
sudo updmap-sys --disable belleek.map --nomkmap
sudo updmap-sys --disable mt-yy.map --nomkmap
sudo updmap-sys --disable mt-plus.map --nomkmap
sudo updmap-sys --enable Map mtpro2.map

and maybe vim $(kpsewhich updmap.cfg), add Map mtpro2.map and run sudo updmap-sys. Correct?

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  • This clearly seems a problem with the .map file. Did you run updmap-sys? Did you add the relevant entry in the updmap.cfg file? The message The following map file(s) couldn't be found: mtpro2.map (in /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg) seems clear about the problem. – egreg Jun 30 '14 at 18:05
  • In other words, did you do updmap-sys --enable Map mtpro2.map? – egreg Jun 30 '14 at 18:08
  • Yes I did. I also checked sudo vim $(kpsewhich updmap.cfg). And it does contain Map mtpro2.map. I should note however that my updmap.cfg is located at /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg when I run kpsewhich updmap.cfg Not at /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg. Both .cfg-files do however contain Map mtpro2.map. – WG- Jun 30 '14 at 18:15
  • Do you have multiple installations of TeX Live? The output from kpsewhich suggests that you are using TL installed using upstream's installer while the presence of the file in /etc and the information in your question suggests that you are using TL from Ubuntu. It is not a good idea to have multiple installations from different distributions. (It is fine to have e.g. TL 2013 and TL 2014 from upstream but mixing TL from upstream with TL from Ubuntu will almost certainly cause problems.) When you ran updmap-sys which file did it use? What was the output? What is your user's PATH? – cfr Jun 30 '14 at 20:42
  • Yes that might be true that I have multiple texlive installations. I installed texlive 2013 manually. However, when I wanted to install ipe on Ubuntu, it also installed the base packages of texlive by default. Which I did not want, but do not know how to cancel, it is mandatory. – WG- Jun 30 '14 at 22:00
  • @cfr my PATH is /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/wouter/.local/bin – WG- Jun 30 '14 at 22:00
  • You need to install a dummy package to keep your package manage happy. Then you can install stuff like ipe without dragging in Ubuntu's texlive packages. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1092/39222 for details. (Except that you should not install as root but nobody takes any notice of that, it seems.) – cfr Jun 30 '14 at 22:05
  • @cfr I updated my question. I removed texlive (all files and folders), installed texlive 2014, installed a dummy package, downloaded the ipe .deb files and installed them. For now everything works again. How do I proceed with installing mtpro2? I updated my question. – WG- Jul 01 '14 at 19:14
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    Everything extra should be installed under /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local and mktexlsr should be run. Append Map mtpro2.map to the file /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg (create it, if it doesn't exist) and run updmap-sys. All of this with administrator privileges. – egreg Jul 01 '14 at 19:35
  • @egreg, this seemed to work! Thank you very much! Can I ask is this also the default manner on installing fonts? Put them in the TEXMFLOCAL folder, run mktexlsr and append the map file to $TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap.cfg? – WG- Jul 01 '14 at 20:10
  • @WG Yes. For fonts which (1) are packaged for TeX and (2) are not part of TeX Live, that is how to do it. Note that you can say updmap-sys --enable Map=mtpro2.map rather than editing updmap.cfg. If you are adding several maps, editing the file is easier but if it is just one or two, sometimes it is easier to use --enable. – cfr Jul 01 '14 at 20:28

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In this answer I assume a standard TeX Live is used, not one packaged by Debian, Fedora or similar distributions.

Extra material should be installed either in TEXMFLOCAL or TEXMFHOME. The first location is

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

while TEXMFHOME refers to ~/texmf (~/Library/texmf with MacTeX).

Fonts should always be installed in TEXMFLOCAL for several reasons (see the related question URW Garamond installation on OS X).

This of course requires administrator privileges.

  • Install the material by expanding the archive at the top level of /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local or by moving manually the files.

  • Run mktexlsr.

  • Open the file

    /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg

    (creating it if necessary) and append the line

    Map mtpro2.map

  • Run updmap-sys

This should make the fonts available to all users of the system.

Note. Although

updmap-sys --enable-map mtpro2.map

(with administrator privileges) instead of the last two steps above appears to work in the same way, there is a big advantage in doing as explained above: when TeX Live 2015 will be issued and installed, the file /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg will remain exactly the same and the run of updmap-sys made by the installation procedure will make the MathTime Pro fonts available in the new release without having to remember activating them manually.

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  • thank you for this answer. I was planning on typing this myself, but you already did :-). I think this is also a very clear text when you want to install any font. – WG- Jul 01 '14 at 22:42