[RESOLVED] Font package installation fails...

jari@ENVY-17:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install ./xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi' instead of './xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/918 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,032 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/jari/Downloads/xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi all 7.5-20 [918 kB]
(Reading database ... 361690 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb ...
Unpacking xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi (7.5-20) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /home/jari/Downloads/xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.alias', which is also in package xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-2-75dpi 7.5-20
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/jari/Downloads/xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The packages were "built" from rpm-packages with the "alien" command:
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch.rpm
xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-1-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch.rpm
xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-2-100dpi_7.5-20_all.deb
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch.rpm
xorg-x11-fonts-iso8859-2-75dpi_7.5-20_all.deb

But it seems it does not install as nicely as the rpm did.

[Edited by moderator - posts should have [SOLVED] or [RESOLVED] at beginning of subject so visitors can readily see that first. ]

https://askubuntu.com/questions/72122/h ... -x11-fonts

I checked this tip, but it didn't seem to help...

Almost all of the old fonts in that package do come with the OS. For additional fonts you need or want, I would just install them manually and avoid any complications.
Grab the font you want in a ttf format and place it in the appropriate font folder- and that is all you need to do.
In your home folder:
~/.fonts
in Root:
/usr/share/fonts

Hi Aravisian,

jarrky is wanting svg fully scaleable fonts. I managed to install them on a different OS just by using the command given here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/613190/ ... s-packages

I used:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalabl

xfonts-100dpi was accessible using Synaptic - I just don't know how to access or use them!

If they don't get installed in font folder then it would mean stating the path in the applications script to which they are going to be used.

Swarfendor437 wrote:Hi Aravisian,

jarrky is wanting svg fully scaleable fonts. I managed to install them on a different OS just by using the command given here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/613190/ ... s-packages

I used:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalabl

xfonts-100dpi was accessible using Synaptic - I just don't know how to access or use them!

If they don't get installed in font folder then it would mean stating the path in the applications script to which they are going to be used.

It seems to work now, but I am not sure what the missing font set was.
Tks.

Curious as to how you access said fonts and what used for and with - will you share?

Thanks for the correction- and I learned something new.

Just found out more about x-fonts:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/xfonts-scalable