[lug] fonts for evolution/mozilla in debian sarge

[Hugh Brown]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 19:59, David Anselmi wrote:
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> [...]
> > No, full package name means "name I can feed to dpkg to get a file 
> > listing"
> > 
> > For example, if I do
> > 
> > dpkg -l |grep font
> > 
> > I get one of the lines of output as:
> > 
> > ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0-7        scalable fonts for X
> > 
> > In this case I can extrapolate that the package name is likely 
> > xfonts-scalable.  In other cases, it isn't as easy to guess.
> 
> Experimenting a little shows this works:
> 
> dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package;-30}\n' xfonts-scalabl*
> 
> I infer from dpkg -s that the fields are: Package, Status, Priority,
> Section, Installed-Size, Maintainer, Architecture, Source, Version,
> Replaces, Provides, Depends, Suggests, Conflicts, Conffiles,
> Description, though there may well be others.
> 
> [...]
> > also good to know, I might give synaptic a go first.
> 
> Worth a try.  I tend to use systems without X so I haven't tried it.

thanks for all the help Dave.

After I sent my first message, I did an apt-cache search on fonts and
installed gsfonts-x11 which pulled down several packages.  After going
to run level 1 and back to 5, the fonts are an appropriate size again.

Hugh