Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3434 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2008/02/06 05:25 (GMT) Sudhir apparently typed:

> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 07:21 -0600, Jim Sabatke wrote:

> > When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says:

> > "You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux
> > distributions should ship with this font preinstalled. 

That's obsolete language. Most distributions used to ship with Vera. There's
no reason for them to any more....

> If you don't
> > have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following
> > link.  We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text
> > may look incorrect.

> >                   http://www.gnome.org/fonts

> > Yast shows that "bitstream-vera  Bitstream Vera(tm) Truetype fonts Ver.
> > 1.10-199 is installed.

> > I am reluctant to go to the gnome site and install a second version for
> > fear of incompatibilities later.

> > Also, I d/l'd the listed package, and the fonts in the package match up
> > namewise with the fonts listed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Vera*.

> > SuSE 10.2/32

> > Has anyone else seen and fixed this?

> Fixed this by downloading fonts from Gnome site, unzipping and copying
> them to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".

It's Google Earth that's broken. There's nothing to fix on the SUSE end.
DejaVu is a currently developed superset of the no longer developed Vera. So
unless you uninstalled DejaVu, you have everything Vera had to offer.
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