[Tex/LaTex] How to use the Luximono font with TeX Live

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I've switched from MiKTeX 2.9 to TeX Live 2011 (pretest version). I've managed to integrate some third party fonts (included neither in MiKTeX nor in TeX Live) in my TEXMFLOCAL tree following the instructions given here. At the moment I'm struggling to install the Luximono font which is part of MiKTeX but (due to license issues) not of TeX Live. According to getnonfreefonts, it should be possible to install Luximono (and some other non-free fonts) with TeX Live. Running the getnonfreefonts script went smoothly and didn't produce any error or warning messages. (I also manually ran updmap-sys afterwards.) However, when trying to compile a LaTeX document that uses Luximono, LaTeX complains that luximono.sty is not found.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Of course, I could try to manually download luximono.sty, install it in my TEXMFLOCAL (or TEXMFHOME) tree and update the file database, but at the moment I'd rather not corrupt my freshly installed and updated font maps. (I had to deal with a lot of corrupted MiKTeX installations during the last week, which was the reason to switch to TeX Live.) So, to the TeX Live experts out there: What exactly am I supposed to do to get the fonts of getnonfreefons, and particularly Luximono, working?

Best Answer

I'm feeling really stupid at the moment, but here's the answer: The instruction to download the installer and then to run

texlua install-getnonfreefonts

means that the getnonfreefonts script will be installed. To install the fonts themselves, one must then follow these instructions and run (in the case of Luximono into the TEXMFLOCAL tree)

getnonfreefonts-sys luximono

and everthing will be fine (except one's self-perception as a LaTeX power user).

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