[OS X TeX] updmap-sys won't do its thing

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

On Thu 1st Jul, 2010 at 15:34, Kyle Johnson seems to have written:

> I have a penchant for screwing up font installations. My apologies for repeatedly bringing these problems to this list for help.
>
> I am installing TeX onto a new laptop, and installing a couple of fonts. I believe these fonts are in the correct place (usr/local/texlive/texmf-local). I had some trouble getting updmap-sys to see the relevant map files and was working that out when I now find that updmap-sys just doesn't want to do its job. Here is what happens:
>
> Kyle-Johnsons-MacBook-Pro:~ kbj$ sudo updmap-sys --enable Map lsx.map
> Password:
I think you want:
 	sudo updmap-sys --enable Map=lsx.map
(Note the "=".)
> updmap: This is updmap, version $Id: updmap 14402 2009-07-23 17:09:15Z karl $
> updmap: using transcript file `/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.log'
> updmap: initial config file is `/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg'
> updmap: configuration (updmap.cfg) unchanged. Map files will not be recreated.

An alternative is to create a local configuration file for updmap-sys.
There are brief instructions at the top of
/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg. There are
slightly more detailed instructions at
http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php/Font_Installation#Installing_other_TeX-ready_fonts.
Scroll down to be sure you read the instructions for TeX Live 2009 and
not TeX Live 2008 as the correct procedure changed.

Good luck!
-cfr

> Any help: deeply appreciated.
>
> Kyle