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Nomdo Jansonius wrote:
>
> Installed TeX in BL2: 
> installpkg tex_bin.tgz and tetex.tgz from Slack 7.1.
> 
> About a thousend of error messages appear on the screen, 
> most of them saying fonts not found, or errors while 
> trying to create them. 

Unfortunately, I have never used TeX myself so I can't
offer any personal insight.  However, Slackware has a
a TeTex HOWTO in /docs/Linux-HOWTO.  I did a quick
search through that and found many references to fonts.  
This one may be relevant:
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dvips generates Postscript from a .dvi file.  In addition, 
it runs Metafont if necessary to generate the bit mapped
fonts it needs or uses Postscript fonts for the output
---------------------------------------------------------
That looks like it might be relevant.  BTW while looking 
through the tetex.tgz package for Metafont, I noticed 
there are a huge number of font files.  Are you sure 
they all installed correctly?  Did you get any kind of 
error message when you did the installation?  

What does the following say:
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df -i
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If your IUse% is 100% then your inodes are full.  That 
probably means some of the font files were not installed.

Cheers,
Steven

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