[tex-live] ! I can't find file `ptmr7t'.

John Spiesberger johnsr at sas.upenn.edu
Wed Jun 2 14:13:12 CEST 2010


Hi,

I installed Fedora 13 this week, and used yum to install texlive.
When using texlive, it is unable to work even with a simple file,  
try.tex, such as:


\documentclass{article}
       \usepackage{times}
       \title{Brief Article}
       \author{The Author}
       \begin{document}
       \maketitle
       This is a test!
\end{document}


The error appears when I type latex try.tex

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11-beta (Web2C 2010/pretest)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./try.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty) (./try.aux)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ptm.fd)
kpathsea: Running mktextfm ptmr7t
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source  
abbreviation  for ptmr7t.
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1;  
nonstopmode; input ptmr7t
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 2010/pretest)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t
! I can't find file `ptmr7t'.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ptmr7t.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode;  
input ptmr7t' failed to make ptmr7t.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font OT1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr7t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file  
not foun
d.
<to be read again>
                    relax
l.5       \begin{document}

?


I found similar problems on the web, and tried the solution from
  http://www.geekness.net/?p=10

but that did not work either!

Thank you!

John



John Spiesberger
Scientific Innovations, Inc.
and
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania



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