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In this answer, I produced a new tfm file for the beamer standard math font. What is the Right Way to make the new font available to the TeX system? With texlive I tried

updmap-sys --enable Map=cmssmi.map

but this gave the following error message.

updmap: This is updmap, version $Id: updmap 14402 2009-07-23 17:09:15Z karl $
updmap: no permissions for writing /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.log', so no transcript

There was a problem finding a proper place to store configuration data.
The message was:
  Directory `/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/web2c' is not writable

To overcome such problems, set up the environment variable TEXMFCONFIG to
point to a directory tree that is writable to you, e.g.
  TEXMFCONFIG=$HOME/texmf; export TEXMFCONFIG
or
  setenv TEXMFCONFIG $HOME/texmf

I did try setting up TEXMFCONFIG, but to no avail.

To make clear what I aim at: I'm on a system where I'm just a poor user; the TeX distribution is installed globally, so it's read-only for me as I don't have root permissions. Therefore, I want the changes installed in a local directory.

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  • I suppose you installed texlive as root? –  Dec 23 '10 at 12:09
  • @Herbert: No, the system administrator did. Sorry that I forgot to tell. – Hendrik Vogt Dec 23 '10 at 12:11
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    then you have to run updmap --enable Map=cmssmi.map, it uses your ~/texmf directory –  Dec 23 '10 at 12:13
  • @Herbert: Thanks, that works. Great! Can you please add it as an answer so that I can accept it? (And: Do I get it right that with -sys it tries to install the font globally?) – Hendrik Vogt Dec 23 '10 at 12:23

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then you have to run updmap --enable Map=cmssmi.map, it uses your ~/texmf directory

But it makes only sense, when you are a real user on a foreign machine.It will confuse your system, when you run sometimes the -sysvariant and sometimes the user variant.