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I wonder how to correctly install the WebOMintsGD font in Tex Live 2015 on Ubuntu 14.04. I tried the following code but without any success:

wget http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts
sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts
getnonfreefonts -a

But when I compile some files using WebOMintsGD, I get the following error: LaTeX errors: !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file WebOMintsGD): Font WebOMintsGD at 720 not found. I think I'm not installing fonts correctly. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

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I upgraded Tex Live from 2013 to 2015 on Ubuntu 14.04 using the guidelines given in this nice answer. But have some problems. After upgrading when I check the version of Tex Live using tex --version command it gives the the following information:

TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.1.1
Copyright 2013 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.

Then I edited ~/.profile and added PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/i386-linux/:$PATH at the end of the file .profile.

Then also: MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH and INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH.

I also used sudo getnonfreefonts-sys -a to install the packages and it say 

Package 'webomints' already installed and no update available.

But even after this I'm still getting the same error.

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Firstly I removed /.texlive2015 using 

rm -rfv ~/.texlive2015

and installed fonts using

getnonfreefonts-sys -a

The command 

getnonfreefonts -l

says

Installation directory: /home/yaseen/texmf
------------------------------------------
arial-urw      Arial (URW)                                          [installed]
classico       Classico (URW & Bob Tennent)                         [installed]
dayroman       DayRoman (Apostrophiclabs)                           [installed]
eurofont       Euro symbols (Adobe)                                 [installed]
garamond       GaramondNo8 (URW)                                    [installed]
garamondx      GaramondNo8 Expert (Michael Sharpe)                  [installed]
lettergothic   LetterGothic (URW)                                   [installed]
luximono       LuxiMono (Bigelow & Holmes)                          [installed]
vntex-nonfree  VnTeX nonfree (Han The Thanh)                        [installed]
webomints      Webomints (Galapagos Design Group)                   [installe

But ~/texmf$ ls doesn't show these font files.

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  • What do you mean exactly with "without any success"? Did the installation failed? – Gonzalo Medina Jul 10 '15 at 14:50
  • When I compile some files using WebOMintsGD, I get the following error: LaTeX errors: !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file WebOMintsGD): Font WebOMintsGD at 720 not found. – MYaseen208 Jul 10 '15 at 14:52
  • It would be helpful if you look through your file structure, and see whether or not files are where you expect them to be. Then, we will know whether the installation completely failed, or whether the problem is with to connection to Latx. – RobtA Jul 12 '15 at 16:11
  • How did you install TeX Live? If you installed from upstream, try removing ~/.texlive2015 and running sudo getnonfreefonts-sys -a. Never use getnonfreefonts unless you have no other choice. – cfr Jul 12 '15 at 16:55
  • @cfr: How I can remove ~/.texlive2015? – MYaseen208 Jul 12 '15 at 17:47
  • @MYaseen208 It is just a directory. You can rename or remove it. (Only remove it if you are 100% positive it is the right one.) How did you install TL? – cfr Jul 12 '15 at 18:42
  • @cfr I'm curious, why not installing getnonfreefonts? – Gonzalo Medina Jul 15 '15 at 01:28
  • @GonzaloMedina It is OK to install it. Just don't use it. Once you install the fonts with that command, you must remember to run updmap every time you update your TeX distribution using TeX Live Manager. If you don't, weird things could happen, you won't get new fonts installed, you won't get updates for font packages you use etc. If you don't have permission to run getnonfreefonts-sys, getnonfreefonts is your only choice. Though it is worth asking how badly you need the extra fonts in that case. Otherwise, there is simply no reason to use it. – cfr Jul 15 '15 at 01:34
  • @GonzaloMedina The same thing happens if you run updmap directly, of course. You either have to undo the effects or remember to run it every time you update the installation. And then weird things happen eventually. – cfr Jul 15 '15 at 01:36
  • @cfr I see. Are those problems with getnonfreefonts documented? This is the firts time I hear about those inconvenients. – Gonzalo Medina Jul 15 '15 at 01:37
  • @GonzaloMedina I don't know. It comes up a reasonable amount in comments. I'm not sure that counts as its being documented exactly. – cfr Jul 15 '15 at 01:51
  • @GonzaloMedina egreg me, me, egreg, ... – cfr Jul 15 '15 at 02:05
  • egreg, ... many more. (Some are even not by egreg.) – cfr Jul 15 '15 at 02:05
  • @cfr Ah, thanks. I never saw those, case I usually don't read question about fonts. – Gonzalo Medina Jul 15 '15 at 02:07
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    @GonzaloMedina There are more answers on it than I realised. I didn't even remember writing any which is why I said it comes up a lot in comments ;). – cfr Jul 15 '15 at 02:09
  • @cfr: Please see edits and guide me accordingly. Thanks – MYaseen208 Jul 16 '15 at 05:15
  • @RobtA: Please see my edits and guide me accordingly. Thanks – MYaseen208 Jul 16 '15 at 05:44
  • @MYaseen208, what does which pdflatex say? is the texmf-local/ shared by the 2013 and 2015 installations? In which case the fonts does not need to be installed again, but you need to activate all the .map files in texmf-local – daleif Jul 16 '15 at 08:06
  • @daleif: which pdflatex says /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/i386-linux//pdflatex. – MYaseen208 Jul 16 '15 at 08:10
  • @MYaseen208, so that is fine. Go to /usr/local/texlive/ and see if texmf-local is there, if it is then it is shared, and webomints are presumably already in texmf-local/fonts/type1/public, thus you will need to activate the appropriate .map files. – daleif Jul 16 '15 at 08:13
  • @MYaseen208, the files are presumably not added to ~/texmf, I do not even have that folder. – daleif Jul 16 '15 at 08:18
  • @daleif: I do have /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/type1 but no /public folder. – MYaseen208 Jul 16 '15 at 08:21
  • Did you run getnonfreefonts-sys as root? I assume TL15 is installed by root given that it is located in /usr/local/. Since I'm the only user on this system, I typically install in /opt/texlive where I own that folder. In that case getnonfreefonts-sys automatically installed into /opt/texlive/texmf-local in my case. No mentioning of ~daleif/texmf/ – daleif Jul 16 '15 at 08:28
  • @daleif: No I did not run getnonfreefonts-sys neither TL15 as root. – MYaseen208 Jul 16 '15 at 08:43
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – MYaseen208 Jul 16 '15 at 08:43
  • @MYaseen208: Got your request for more help, but I see that the others have already provided help above my level of expertise. – RobtA Jul 16 '15 at 20:05

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The problem here is most likely because the getnonfreefonts are already available in the shared texmf-local/ folder in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. However the corresponding Map files are not enabled and thiws LaTeX does not know where the fonts are. Thus these .map files have to be enabled.

Ulrike Fischer mentioned that since these fonts are not related to tlmgr it might be an idea to make a custom updmap.cfg for texmf-local which updmap will then pick up and use.

Here is how I made mine (you might need to be root)

  1. Go to texmf-local, on my setup this is /opt/texlive/texmf-local, you can ask TL you provide it via kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL
  2. Make sure the web2c subfolder exists, make it if it does not exist

  3. Now run

    find . -name \*.map

    Which will find all the .map files under texmf-local.

  4. Copy this output into web2e/updmap.cfg and edit it so each line looks like

    Map name.map

    (you will need to remove a lot of ./path/path/ stuff)

  5. Now run

    texhash
updmap-sys --syncwithtrees

    The first command updates the ls-R DBs, so LaTeX now knows about our extra updmap.cfg. The other command use this extra information to sync all the updmap information.

You can test that it works with

 updmap-sys --listmaps | grep webo

As webo.map is the Map file for WeboMints

For reference, here is what my /opt/texlive/texmf-loca/web2c/updmap.cfg ended as:

Map dayroman.map
Map webo.map
Map ugm.map
Map zgm.map
Map ffu.map
Map ua1.map
Map ulg.map
Map zpeu.map
Map classicovn.map
Map garamondvn.map
Map ul9.map
Map classico.map

(duplicates removed)

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  • after a year I have the same problem when I upgraded Texlive. Now the output of which pdflatex is /usr/bin/pdflatex. Would appreciate if you help me to figure out the same problem again with Texlive 2016. Waiting for your help. Thanks in advance. – MYaseen208 Sep 18 '16 at 17:54
  • Exactly what did you install? If you compare the pdflatex location with the one from your original question, they are very different. – daleif Sep 18 '16 at 18:58
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I like to share a successed instalation of WebOMints on TeXlive 2019 on Ubuntu 20.04.

On terminal:

wget http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts
sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts
sudo getnonfreefonts --sys -a

With this, the following fonts were successfully installed system-wide (I tested WebOMints): arial-urw, classico, dayroman, gandhi, garamond, garamondx, lettergothic, literaturnaya, luximono, vntex-nonfree, webomints.

For non system-wide installations, see TeX Live updmap and fmtutil, -sys vs. -user

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