Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And -- dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig did not regenerate the package.
Well, it shouldn't. It just asks you the same questions you were asked the first time you installed it. > But the perplexing thing is that when I happened to reboot, all the > problems went away. So it seems that as long as I don't _have_ > a libfontconfig, then all is well. What does $ apt-cache policy fontconfig libfontconfig1 say? As the reconfiguring of fontconfig worked, you should have libfontconfig1 installed. They depend on each other. Maybe you should run (as root) # aptitude reinstall fontconfig libfontconfig1 > Does anybody understand this? Does anybody know why this works, so > I can figure out what it is that I need to do next to really fix the > problem? I don't know exactly, but as far as I understand the postinst script of fontconfig (which is a depend of libfontconfig) runs "fc-cache". This is regenerating the font-database. So maybe this solved you're problem. Ulrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]