[Tex/LaTex] Can’t manually install opensans on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS

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I'm trying to use the font opensans for a document. This works great on Ubuntu 13.04, but it doesn't work on Ubuntu 12.04.3. The reason for this was pretty easy to figure out, because Ubuntu 13.04 includes the font in a system package. So I installed opensans using CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/opensans), and followed the instructions in the documentation. I did these steps:

  • Download the ZIP and extract this to /usr/share/texmf (I want to install systemwide)
  • Run mktexlsr
  • Run updmap –enable Map=opensans.map
  • Because I want it installed systemwide, I also tried sudo updmap-sys –enable Map=opensans.map

None of these commands gives an error. But unfortunately, this didn't work completely. I can use the normal opensans font now just fine. It just fails on italics/bold text. A minimal working example:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[default]{opensans}

\begin{document}
Testing \textbf{bold} and \textit{italics}!
\end{document}

The error I get is this:

$ pdflatex mwe.tex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
entering extended mode
(./mwe.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/opensans/opensans.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/slantsc/slantsc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty))) (./mwe.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/opensans/ot1fos.fd) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdf
tex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./mwe.aux)
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 OpenSans-Bold-01
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for OpenSans-Bold-01.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
 )
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file OpenSans-Bold-01): Font OpenSans-Bold-01 at 657 n
ot found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

This was done with the same user that ran the above commands. What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

It seems the TeXLive from your Ubuntu version is from 2009, which is at this time four releases ago (i.e. especially in these features can be considered to be outdated). Please update to the latest release.

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