From: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:56:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1efd236a36dc939bff7202dbd3b90891@mhoenicka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5606990-8d15-60bf-e794-7078ebe16f71@gmail.com>
Am 2020-07-24 07:19, schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin:
> On 24.07.2020 05:00, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new
>> Windows 10 laptop. However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace"
>> graphing software (by entering the command "xmgrace &" in the xterm
>> command
>> shell, as I did on my old Windows 7 laptop), I get the following error
>> message:
>>
>> [vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$ xmgrace &
>> [1] 1183
>> [vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$ --> Broken or incomplete installation -
>> read the
>> FAQ!
>> [1] Exit 1 xmgrace
>> [vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$
>
>>
>> I tried reading the FAQ, but it was unhelpful for this particular
>> issue.
>> Does anyone have any ideas about why this might be happening?? Also,
>> if it
>> is an incomplete installation, then does anyone know what set of
>> Cygwin
>> utilities I need to install to obtain a fully-functioning copy of the
>> "xmgrace" graphing software?
>
> there is an entry about Fonts, and
>
> a strace output shows that xmgrace is looking for type1 fonts on
>
>
>
> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts
>
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1
>
>
>
> in the past ghostscript provided them, but not anymore,
> so I *guess* you need this workaround
>
>
> install "urw-base35-fonts-legacy" package
>
> $ cd /usr/share/grace/fonts/
> $ ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/urw-fonts type1
>
>
> the fonts looked by xgrace are :
>
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/d050000l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019003l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019004l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019023l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019024l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021003l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021004l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021023l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021024l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022003l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022004l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022023l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022024l.pfa
> /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/s050000l.pfa
>
> and their pfb counterpart.
>
> Regards
> Marco
Hi,
I ran into this problem yesterday, but I had to ask our IT service for
admin permissions before I could fiddle with my installation. Therefore
your answer (and the OP's question) came in faster than I could even
ask. This is just to confirm that your suggested changes fixed the
problem here. Would it make sense to add a dependency on the fonts to
the grace package?
regards,
Markus
--
Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
AQ score 38
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-24 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-24 3:00 Bryan VanSchouwen
2020-07-24 5:19 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-07-24 7:56 ` Markus Hoenicka [this message]
2020-07-24 12:00 ` Ken Brown
2020-07-24 20:27 ` Marco Atzeri
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