[PlanetCCRMA] Liberation fonts

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 12:57 -0700, John Lowry wrote:
> Hi again--
> 
> Managed to get the network up properly at boot time.
> 
> Now looking at the font issue.
> 
> I've done this:
> 
> 
> % yum search liberation
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 
> 
> 
> liberation-fonts.noarch                  0.1-9.fc6              extras
> Matched from:
> liberation-fonts
> The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three
> most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman,
> Arial, and Courier New.
> 
> 
> 
> liberation-fonts.noarch                  0.1-9.fc6              planetextras
> Matched from:
> liberation-fonts
> The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three
> most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman,
> Arial, and Courier New.
> 
> Then this:
> 
> [root@acer jal]# yum update liberation-fonts.noarch
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> planetcore                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> planetextras              100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> planetccrma               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 424 kB    00:03
> updates   : ################################################## 1124/1124
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.8 MB    00:10
> extras    : ################################################## 5743/5743
> Could not find update match for liberation-fonts.noarch
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> 
> 
> Howcome 'search' says there's a 'liberation-fonts.noarch' package, but then
> can't find it?

You need to "install" the packages, not "update" them (the update will
only work if the fonts are already installed). 

"yum install liberation-fonts" should do it. 

-- Fernando