I have installed the one from Suse 8.1 and it turns out that
in35:/iuehome/ayalew/tesfaye/ethiopic # rpmlocate ucs.sty
Searching for ucs.sty in rpm db...
latex-ucs-20020510-39:
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/ucs.sty
Now I run the example:
in35:ayalew >> ~/tesfaye/ethiopic $ latex UTF8-amharic-german.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(./UTF8-amharic-german.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/german/german.sty v2.5e 1998-07-08)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/ucs.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-global.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/utf8.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/contrib/letenc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (./UTF8-amharic-german.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/contrib/letgfzem.fd) (./ucsencs.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-0.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/contrib/letc2000.fd)kpathsea: Running
mktextfm code2k12
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation od
for code2k12.
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update
/usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input code2k12
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.7)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf code2k12
! I can't find file `code2k12'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input code2k12
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input code2k12
Transcript written on mfput.log.
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input code2k12' failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font LET/c2000/m/n/12=code2k12 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)
file not
found.
<to be read again>
relax
l.13 ...ba'^^88?a'^^8a^^9b a'^^88 a'^^88^^8ba'^^88^^9d}
Cordially,
-tesfaye
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