[mythtv-users] BE3 - Issues with installation and database

[faginbagin]

On 6/1/2019 12:08 PM, Barry Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi Stephen!
> 
> 
> Now the next thing to do is to check and see if the DroidSans.ttf you
> have found is actually a font file, or whether it is a link to somewhere
> else. So what does this command show:
> 
> *ll //usr/share/mythtv/fonts//**
> 
>     barry at Backend-3:~$ ll /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/*
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSansMono.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansMono.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSans.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-Bold.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-Bold.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-Italic.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-Italic.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-Regular.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-Regular.ttf
> 
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeMono.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSans.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Purisa.ttf ->
>     ../../fonts/truetype/tlwg/Purisa.ttf
> 
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 May 1 01:02
>     /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/texgyrechorus-mediumitalic.otf ->
>     ../../texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrechorus-mediumitalic.otf
> 
> 
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39728 May 1 01:01
>     '/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont Bold.ttf'
> 
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44788 May 1 01:01
>     '/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont Italic.ttf'
> 
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42084 May 1 01:01
>     '/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont.ttf'
> 
>     barry at Backend-3:~$
> 
> 
>     The first seven are red on guess a charcoal gray. Both sides of the
>     arrow. (So according to my handy-dandy chart “symlink to
>     non-existant file”
> 
> 
>     The middle five the left side is a light blue, right side white.

<snip>

This is a packaging issue. Those Droid fonts should be installed in /usr/share/mythtv/fonts. Those fonts are part of mythtv. But, for some reason they aren't being installed by the .deb packages. I submitted a patch last year that fixed it:
https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/commit/7dbe02656ff92e4a5d300f7b9f04afbf13a96a09
That patch is part of the fixes/29 branch, but it was never ported to master or to fixes/30. You can install them manually if you download them from here:
https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/tree/master/mythtv/themes/fonts

And I suggest someone write a ticket or github issue asking that my patch be applied to master and to fixes/30. As I said, I'm on fixes/29.