Aaron, please ensure you have the xutils package installed, per the suggestion in the xfonts-* package descriptions.
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001204 15:18]: > Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. > > ----- Forwarded message from Aaron Brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: "Aaron Brick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: xfonts-* > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:41:26 -0800 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > > hello branden, > > first, thenks for doing so much work on the X4 packages! i have been using > them for some time and i appreciate your effort. > > i have been having a problem with the xfonts packages which you ought to > know about. none of the fonts packages can be configured because mkfontdir > fails owing to a lack of libXfont.so.1, which is not in any package (?!). > presumably you know about this; please advise. > > thanks much, > > aaron. > > _________________ > / \ > / aaron brick \ > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > \ 650 940 2080 / > \_________________/ > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | The first thing the communists do when > Debian GNU/Linux | they take over a country is to outlaw > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cockfighting. > http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''