Comments on: Suboptimal fonts after Fedora 9 upgrade

By: Todd Volkert

Todd Volkert — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:43:33 +0000

Just found that in Fedora 12, the font moved to xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch. Go figure…

By: Todd Volkert

Todd Volkert — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:24:11 +0000

On Fedora 10, I had the same problem and was able to solve it by installing the xorg-x11-fonts-misc package. However, I just upgraded to Fedora 11, and now that package doesn’t contain the font any more!

By: George Locke

George Locke — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:49:48 +0000

Anybody found a solution to this? v annoying!

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:27:57 +0000

I have the same emacs problem upgrading from FC5 to FC10 with the missing Adobe font. Curiously I built another dual-boot machine over WinXP, installed FC10 (64-bit version; dual CPU) and emacs works there. Not only that, but I can remote into my older machine where emacs fails, that I upgraded to FC10 (32-bit), using “ssh -X” from the new FC10 machine and emacs works properly with my settings remotely, but fails on the font issue locally. I also yum groupupgraded all font packages and now have 48 of them on the old machine (vs. only 40 on the fresh FC10 install). Still not a fix.

I will find the solution, but it will take more time than I would like to waste on these basic issues. I may even try overlaying Ubuntu if it comes to that.

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:52:49 +0000

I dont know for sure if it is the same problem
but on fc10 the xtide package has dependency
on a deprecated font package

xorg-x11-fonts-base is needed by xtide-2.10-2.fc9.i386

I was trying to get around it by compiling from source
but the font was still required in the source code

“-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*”;