[Tex/LaTex] Problem installing culmus-latex on ubuntu 12.04

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I'm trying to get Hebrew to work for my LaTeX/LyX on Ubuntu 12.04. I have TeX Live 2012 installed and the Hebrew works for that. Then I followed the instructions for installing LyX + Hebrew support, this requires installing the culmus LaTeX package. I've gotten this to install as well, however for some reason LaTeX doesn't recognize the file culmus.sty.

The path for the file is

/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/culmus/culmus.sty

I've also copied the file to my ~/texmf directory.
I've run both mktexlsr and texhash, but when I try to compile a LaTeX file with \usepackage{culmus}, I get

ERROR: LaTeX Error: File culmus.sty not found.

In addition, when I save the file in the ~/texmf directory and compile, I no longer get that error, instead I get:

ERROR: I can't find file `jerus10'.

--- TeX said ---
<*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: jerus10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input jerus10' failed to make jerus10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font LHE/cmr/m/n/10=jerus10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.2 \select@language{hebrew}

The file I'm using as a test goes as follows:

\documentclass[english,hebrew]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
%\usepackage{culmus}

\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{hebrew}
שלום לכל העולם!
\end{document}

Any help would be very appreciated!

Best Answer

There is a bug in Ubuntu's (and Debian's) version of updmap, a workaround is available in http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2012/04/20/installing-culmus-latex-on-ubuntu-11-10/

(Discalimer: I maintain the culmus-latex package)

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