1. NAME▲

update-fonts-dir - compile fonts.dir files

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

update-fonts-dir [OPTION] directory ...

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.dirfile in an X font directory by invoking

R mkfontdir (1x) with the appropriate arguments. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a packagecontaining fonts for the X Window System, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct fonts.dirfiles. For each directory , which is simply the last component of its path (such as (oq75dpi(cq or (oqmisc(cq),

update-fonts-dir will generate either /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ directory /fonts.dir or /usr/share/fonts/X11/ directory /fonts.dir from the fonts.scaleand font files found within it.

This enables multiple packages to provide names for fonts in the same directory. No font package actually provides the fonts.dirfile in the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's font names with those of another.

For instance, the two packages (oqxfonts-base(cq (real) and (oqxfonts-nifty(cq (hypothetical) may both install fonts into the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc , and

update-fonts-dir will ensure that the fonts.dirfile in that directory contains information about the font files provided by both packages.

The format of fonts.dirfiles is described in the

R mkfontdir (1x) manual page.

An example of how to use

update-fonts-dir in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.

4. OPTIONS ▲

-h\fR, \fB--help displays a brief usage message and exits.

-7\fR, \fB--x11r7-layout switches the font layout to the one introduced in X11R7: fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ directory (default is: fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ directory)

5. OPERANDS ▲

update-fonts-dir takes one or more X font directory names to operate on as operands. Only the final path component of the directory name should be specified; e.g.,

update-fonts-dir 75dpi is correct, while (oq "update-fonts-dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (cq and (oq "update-fonts-dir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (cq are not.

6. ENVIRONMENT ▲

COLUMNS

    indicates the width of the terminal device in character cells. This value is used for formatting diagnostic messages. If not set, the terminal is queried using

R stty (1) to determine its width. If that fails, a value of (oq80(cq is assumed.

7. DIAGNOSTICS ▲

7.1. Errors ▲

usage error: one or more font directories must be provided

    .B update-fonts-dir was invoked without operands. Supply one or more X font directory names to operate on.

usage error: unrecognized option

    .B update-fonts-dir was invoked with an unrecognized option argument. Use only the options documented in « OPTIONS », above.

fatal error: path to X font directory must be used

    A directory name was supplied that was not an X font directory name. Supply X font directory names only.

7.2. Warnings ▲

  • warning: absolute path directory was provided
        Usage of absolute paths is deprecated. Use only the final component of the X font directory name for directory .
  • warning: directory does not exist or is not a directory
        The supplied directorywas invalid.

update-fonts-dir skipped it.

8. EXIT STATUS ▲

  • 0
        .B update-fonts-dir ran successfully.
  • 1
        .B update-fonts-dir experienced a fatal error; see the section on diagnostic messages above.
  • 2
        .B update-fonts-dir was invoked with invalid arguments.

9. BUGS ▲

See .URL "http://bugs.debian.org/xfonts-utils" "the Debian Bug Tracking System" . If you wish to report a bug in

R update-fonts-dir , please see /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txtor the

R reportbug (1) command.

10. AUTHOR ▲

update-fonts-dir was written by Branden Robinson.

11. SEE ALSO ▲

R mkfontdir (1x)