xboard 4.5.2a and Ubuntu 11.04

[jshriver]

I rebuilt my machine and install Ubuntu 11.04. Out of the box the xboard package gave me this error:

xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

tried installing everything font, xfont, or helvetica related but still kept getting this error. So ended up doing a dpkg -P xboard, and grabbed the latest source, installed all the deps and had a clean build.

Went to run it, and the exact same error message. Anyone know what this is or more importantly how to fix it?

-Josh

[bhlangonijr]

I rebuilt my machine and install Ubuntu 11.04. Out of the box the xboard package gave me this error:

xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

tried installing everything font, xfont, or helvetica related but still kept getting this error. So ended up doing a dpkg -P xboard, and grabbed the latest source, installed all the deps and had a clean build.

Went to run it, and the exact same error message. Anyone know what this is or more importantly how to fix it?

-Josh

I ran into this same problem - among other dependency issues - and solved it installing the following packages:

texinfo
libxxf86*.
x11-libXt*.
libxaw*.

I hope it helps...

Regards,

[jshriver]

Found some answers via Mr. Muller on another forum.

You need to have xfont-75dpi or 100dpi installed, which I did. Seeing it was an X issue ended up just logging out/in to restart X and voila it worked.

Just fyi in case others come across this problem.

[bob]

I rebuilt my machine and install Ubuntu 11.04. Out of the box the xboard package gave me this error:

xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

tried installing everything font, xfont, or helvetica related but still kept getting this error. So ended up doing a dpkg -P xboard, and grabbed the latest source, installed all the deps and had a clean build.

Went to run it, and the exact same error message. Anyone know what this is or more importantly how to fix it?

-Josh

In fedora, we have the option to install "legacy fonts" which takes care of this completely...

You might look for "legacy fonts ubuntu" and see what you find...

[jshriver]

Thanks here are the Ubuntu package names.

apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi

[bob]

Thanks here are the Ubuntu package names.

apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi

There are others in the legacy fonts package. The above should fix xboard, but there are other applications one might use if you have been using unix a long while, and some of those have not migrated to the newer font naming convention.

[hgm]

Normally the required font packages are automatically installed when you install the xboard binary package. That still many people have this problem, because installing the package is not enough. The X-server has to be made aware of them somehow, so it will cache them, before they can be used.