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I try to install the LaTeX package garamondx and compile the doc which comes with the package. For this, I downloaded garamondx.tds.zip from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/install/fonts, extracted the archive to $HOME/texmf and run texhash. updmap doesn't work for my local user, because

Directory "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap" isn't writable

Unfortunately it doesn't work. When I try to run the provided minimal example, I get the return error code 70:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 zgmr8r
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for zgmr8r.
mktexpk: perhaps zgmr8r is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
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!pdfTeX error: /usr/bin/pdflatex (file zgmr8r): Font zgmr8r at 600 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{garamondx}

\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}

I'm using texlive2012.

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If you already have a working TeX Live environment installed (with one of the methods listed here) you should install nonfree fonts (like garamondx) according to this guide.

In short, first you download the script and execute it (needs root privileges) with texlua install-getnonfreefonts. You'll see something like this

Detected System: x86_64-linux
Detected Installation: /usr/local/texlive/2012
mkdir /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/scripts/getnonfreefonts ...          [done]
Installing texmf/scripts/getnonfreefonts/getnonfreefonts.pl ...          [done]
Installing texmf/doc/man/man1/getnonfreefonts.1 ...                      [done]
Installing texmf/doc/man/man1/getnonfreefonts-sys.1 ...                  [done]
Installing texmf/doc/man/man1/getnonfreefonts.man1.pdf ...               [done]
Installing texmf/doc/man/man1/getnonfreefonts-sys.man1.pdf ...           [done]
md5sum: cf8aeec0477a28c0c32ba1166f8bd8f3 getnonfreefonts.pl ...            [ok]
md5sum: f850d910dd96ee27cecdb3772047d247 getnonfreefonts.1 ...             [ok]
md5sum: fb2b0f7699db8e627d4e26b730e94928 getnonfreefonts-sys.1 ...         [ok]
md5sum: 415b51f7c80a4abe8d0a667a04c9d525 getnonfreefonts.man1.pdf ...      [ok]
Fixing File Permissions ...                                              [done]
Creating symlinks in 'bin/x86_64-linux' ...                              [done]
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/ls-R... 
texhash: Done.

Then run getnonfreefonts -l for a list of available fonts:

arial-urw      Arial (URW)                                  [not installed]
classico       Classico (URW)                               [not installed]
dayroman       DayRoman (Apostrophiclabs)                   [not installed]
eurofont       Euro symbols (Adobe)                         [not installed]
garamond       GaramondNo8 (URW)                            [not installed]
garamondx      GaramondNo8 Expert (Michael Sharpe)          [not installed]
lettergothic   LetterGothic (URW)                           [not installed]
luximono       LuxiMono (Bigelow & Holmes)                  [not installed]
vntex-nonfree  VnTeX nonfree (Han The Thanh)                [not installed]
webomints      Webomints (Galapagos Design Group)           [not installed]

and finally getnonfreefonts garamondx (getnonfreefonts -a to install all nonfree fonts). enter image description here

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  • Thank you a lot. The updmap-sys call failed, but after a manual texhash and updmap-sys everything seems to work. Now I try to find out how this font can be activated temporarily (probably using \fontfamily).
    – rriemann
    Commented Apr 22, 2013 at 15:58
  • if map files cannot be updated when you have root privileges you may have something weird going on in your TeXLive installation, probably related to previous manual intervertions into the texmf-tree.
    – d-cmst
    Commented Apr 22, 2013 at 16:08
  • Probably. I think I got everything working. \fontfamily{zgmx} seems to do the trick.
    – rriemann
    Commented Apr 22, 2013 at 16:10
  • @dcmst Does this install method only work in TexLive and not MiKTeX?
    – Andy
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 17:24
  • @Andy AFAIK only works for TeX Live, for MikTeX you should be able to install the garamondx font via the package manager (but I don't use MikTeX, so I'm not sure) see tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88038/… for more info.
    – d-cmst
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 18:06
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For windows users you may follow the following steps (assuming textlive already installed):

  1. run using command prompt : curl --remote-name https://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts 2.then texlua install-getnonfreefonts --sys
  2. check installed fonts getnonfreefonts --sys -l
  3. install all fonts getnonfreefonts --sys -a you may add name after -a but I have not test it to install specific font.
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I had the same problem, and fixed it by running the getnonfreefonts.pl script installed by install-getnonfreefonts with the options --sys --refreshmap --all. This correctly updated the font maps.

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