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I am trying to make a pdf from a document I got online, and I have a hard time doing it. Apparently pflatex calls kpathsea, which calls mktextfm, which needs a "ecrm1000" file.

A research about it have shown me other logs of error where this appears (like this question or this one), but with no solution about it. The latter even is mentioned as duplicate without actually providing a link to the previously asked question.

I am on the lastest version of ubuntu, with the recommended settings of TeX-Live (I only added manually the french babel extension and textpos) There is the logs:

$ pdflatex prapport.tex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./prapport.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/02/01>
Babel <3.9q> and hyphenation patterns for 5 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)
kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded base=mf)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1000
! I can't find file `ecrm1000'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ecrm1000.log: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed to make ecrm1000.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
nd.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.105 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont

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Anne Aunyme
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    Welcome! Please always provide a minimal example of code needed to reproduce the error. However, in this case, I assume you just need to install cm-super. – cfr Sep 06 '16 at 12:55
  • It is looking for ecrm1000.mf which is part of the ec-package. On my system (Texlive in windows) it is in fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ecrm1000.mf – Ulrike Fischer Sep 06 '16 at 12:55
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    Probably you need to install texlive-fonts-recommended or similar, as mentioned in one of the questions linked. The duplicate linked for the other is at the top of the question, highlighted in a banner thing. – cfr Sep 06 '16 at 12:58
  • cm-super didn't solve the proble, texlive-fonts-recommended did. Thank you ! – Anne Aunyme Sep 06 '16 at 13:03

4 Answers4

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As the great @cfr said, there are probably fonts missing. The exact error can of course be different in different cases (e.g. 'missing tctt1000'), but you can install missing fonts in texlive-fonts-recommended with

tlmgr install collection-fontsrecommended
PHPirate
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Fixed this error on my (Debian Linux) system with

sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended

duplexddaann
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    Apparently the missing fonts are in the texlive-fonts-recommended package and were yet to be installed on my system. I included the exact command I used, which was implied in previous answers, but I thought the exact command would be helpful to others. – duplexddaann Dec 11 '18 at 17:37
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When using Cygwin, install the package texlive-collection-fontsrecommended

Aaron Digulla
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On CentOS7.9 I had to install package: texlive-ec.noarch

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