Installing MinionPro fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 running TexLive 2012

Question

I followed the instructions to install MinionPro fonts from this website. http://carlo-hamalainen.net/blog/2007/12/11/installing-minion-pro-fonts/

However, when I tried to run the tex file at the bottom, I have this error message:

! LaTeX Error: File `MinionPro.sty' not found.

Running the command kpsewhich MinionPro.sty gives the following output:

/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/MinionPro/MinionPro.sty

So the system knows where MinionPro.sty is, so why can't the file compile?

Did you start tex in the same shell where you started kpsewhich?
Hi Stephan, how do I find that out? Not really familar with the kpsewhich command.
Sorry for not being clear. You reported the output of kpsewhich, so you probably typed that into a command shell. Is this the same shell where you are also running the tex command (or pdftex or whatever)?
Yup it is. I am trying to compile the tex file using pdflatex, if that is of any help.
That's bad. There's practically no explanation for kpsewhich finding the file and pdflatex not. Something else must be going wrong.

ℝaphink · Answer 1 · 2012-09-03 08:13:45Z

If you don't need the math font, there's a much easier way to use MinionPro with LaTeX:

Install Acrobat Reader (the acroread package on Ubuntu);
Copy the OTF fonts: sudo cp /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font/*.otf /usr/local/share/fonts/;
Use fontspec with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX to make use of the fonts.

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