[SOLVED] Having difficulty installing (and understanding) fonts

BW-userx · 04-12-2017, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Okay, teach. Did the exercises. My owner name is gregory. My group name is gregory. So:

Code:

chown -R gregory:gregory ~/.fonts

Right?

So I updated the ~/.fonts . Why am I changing ownership to reverse it?

in a car R is for Race
in Linux R is for Recursive.

hehe

Gregg Bell · 04-12-2017, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mrmazda

On the surface one would expect it to ensure that ~/.fonts and all it contains belongs to owner gregory and group gregory. But, take a look in ~/.fonts with MC and see. An ordinary user doesn't have power to wrest ownership from root.

Case matters in FOSS commands and filesystems. Don't trust your memory. Do 'fc-cache --help' or 'man fc-cache' to see -r and -R are quite different. Take a look at 'chown --help' and/or 'man chown' as well.

It did not. One of the reasons for the #27 exercise was to present an opportunity to discover so. fc-cache updates the fontconfig cache, not the content of ~/.fonts. If ownership of the content of ~/.fonts was or is bad, it's not because of running fc-cache.

True.

In fact? Or, is that just something you think happened?

Look around in MC some more. I doubt anything in ~ is wrong on account of anything I've read in this thread, but if there is, MC in long listing mode, as would 'ls -al | less', should make bad ownerships readily apparent.

Thanks for the great post, teach. I will go over this tomorrow night (I have to talk to a friend who had a big medical test--I just wanted to check in) and explore MC for the answers to the issue here. I am a little confused in the macro though--in that there's nothing to worry about. Was there nothing to post 15 and the "weirdest errors" that might creep into the fonts? (And remember, I'm a writer!) Appreciate the help.

Gregg Bell · 04-12-2017, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by BW-userx

in a car R is for Race
in Linux R is for Recursive.

hehe

Ah, that I can grasp! LOL

mrmazda · 04-12-2017, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Was there nothing to post 15 and the "weirdest errors" that might creep into the fonts?

Only in that sudo has the potential to cause permissions trouble that can be difficult for those who don't understand permissions to diagnose. IMO that potential is entirely inapplicable in the context of fc-cache.

Gregg Bell · 04-14-2017, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by mrmazda

Only in that sudo has the potential to cause permissions trouble that can be difficult for those who don't understand permissions to diagnose. IMO that potential is entirely inapplicable in the context of fc-cache.

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Only in that sudo has the potential to cause permissions trouble that can be difficult for those who don't understand permissions to diagnose.

Uh, that would be me!

Hi mrmazda. I just got done going through MC again. I did the two exercises. In the first exercise all the owners and groups are 'gregory.' So no 'root' there.

And in the Chown window in MC (via exercise #2) the "User name" highlighted was 'gregory' and the "Group name" was also higlighted on 'gregory.'

So...no need for the command suggested in post #22 (or any other post)? Are the crops saved? (Were the crops never in danger?) Thanks.

mrmazda · 04-14-2017, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

So...no need for the command suggested in post #22 (or any other post)? Are the crops saved? (Were the crops never in danger?) Thanks.

Time to mark this thread solved grasshopper.

Gregg Bell · 04-14-2017, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by mrmazda

Time to mark this thread solved grasshopper.

Okey dokey. Thanks for all the help!