[tex-live] problem with babel package

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Wed May 18 16:05:51 CEST 2011


Robin Fairbairns wrote, On 2011-05-18 16:01:
> Manthos <vogia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have installed texmaker in four different operating systems (vista, xp,
>> mint7, ubuntu 11.04) . When I want to write in greek I use the following
>> preamble:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>>
>> \usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
>>
>> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
>>
>> \usepackage{ucs}
>>
>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>>
>> \usepackage{amsfonts}
>>
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>>
>> \usepackage{makeidx}
>>
>> \author{Manthos}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \end{document}
>>
>> which works fine in all operating system but ubuntu, where I get the
>> following error message:
>>
>> line 2 ! Font LGR/cmr/m/n/10=grmn1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)
>> file not found
> 
> formal answer:
> 
> this is not a tl issue, but an ubuntu one.  for a definitive answer, ask
> the ubuntu developers via a bug report there, or something.
> 
> answer trying to offer some help:
> 
> ubuntu practises micro-management of packages; find the .deb package
> that contains grmn1000 and install that.  (we're switching to ubuntu
> here, and several of the errors i've fielded have been because some
> particular part of tex live isn't loaded by default.  the most recent
> one was similar to your problem: a missing font.)
> 
> robin

which is one of the reasons I would not recommend using the Ubuntu 
version of TeXLive.

-- 

/daleif


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