> gsftopk: fatal: map file `psfonts_t1.map' not found. This problem does not exist in the default configuration of teTeX (i.e. as set up when installing my sources).
> Without going into a lot of detail, a workaround was to add > /usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map// > to TEXFONTMAPS, in addition to /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map//. Is this If the system puts stuff into /usr/share/texmf-var, then this tree should be listed in the TEXMF variable. I suggest that you contact the maintainer of these RPMs. Thomas