[Glastonbury] Mandriva 10 CE - fonts

Ian Dickinson i.j.dickinson at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 21:30:06 BST 2005


On 10/19/05, Martin Wheeler <mwheeler at startext.co.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone on list help Alan (Levett)?
>
> He's having problems finding where on the Mandriva 10 CE (Community
> Edition) CD the fonts for X live -- and having buggered up the fixed fonts
> for X, can't get X going at all.
I don't use Mandrake either, but one brute-force way to locate font
RPMs woud be:

cd /mount/cdrom
find . -iname \*.rpm

note -iname not -name, to match Font as well as font

To re-install an existing RPM, use the --force option (luke :-).

hth,
Ian



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