[Tex/LaTex] texlive: How to determine which package a font is contained in

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I've written a script that repeatedly runs lualatex file.tex to install missing packages, but I'm having a hard time doing the same with missing fonts. When an error message like

! Font \OT1/ppl/m/n/9=pplr7t at 9pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.

comes up, I would like to determine the package containing ppl. Is there a way to do this algorithmically?

(For example, when there were missing x.sty or x.cls files, I was able to run tlmgr search --file x.sty and parse out the package it was in. If there is a ppl.some_extension file that every font has and that tlmgr could search for, that would be perfect.)

The script can be found here.

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Well your message says that pplr7t.tfm is missing, so if tlmgr is able to find single files in packages tlmgr search --file pplr7t.tfm should work (I have miktex so I can't know).

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