Re: [PATCH] FAQ-BUILD.txt: Append reference to manual LaTeX package install

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:03:29PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >From 4452298c139d3af3abb5af1d1a3a40754851e0b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:47:58 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] FAQ-BUILD.txt: Append reference to manual LaTeX package install
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> ---
> Hi Paul,
> 
> So, this is the update of FAQ-BUILD.txt.
> Feel free to wordsmith as you like before pushing out.

I pushed the following, please let me know if my wordsmithing smithed
meaning out of existence so I can fix.

							Thanx, Paul

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commit 39ce24a30848c96064f9ff0c61f1d883c2baf8e0
Author: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 23 21:47:58 2017 +0900

    FAQ-BUILD.txt: Append reference to manual LaTeX package install
    
    Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    [ paulmck: Wordsmithing. ]

diff --git a/FAQ-BUILD.txt b/FAQ-BUILD.txt
index 6627bbbe2d6f..c772e8fdcef0 100644
--- a/FAQ-BUILD.txt
+++ b/FAQ-BUILD.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 	find it?

 	A.	The "pdflatex" package is a variant of Don Knuth's
-		digital typesetting program.  On Ubuntu Trusty,
+		digital typesetting program.  On Ubuntu Trusty and Xenial,
 		installing the following set of packages suffices:

 			texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra psutils
@@ -83,3 +83,36 @@
 		so if it happens, please let me know.  Please send me the
 		perfbook.log output (or perfbook-1c.log output, depending
 		on which you were building) so that I can fix the scripts.
+
+8.	Some of experimental targets for alternative font won't build
+	due to lack of necessary packages such as "newtxtt". How can I
+	install those packages?
+
+	A.	The simplest approach is to upgrade to a recent TeX
+		distribution such as TeX Live 2016.  Upgrading your Linux
+		distribution (e.g. to Ubuntu Xenial) is one way to
+		upgrade to TeX Live 2016, and might have many other
+		benefits as well.
+
+		However, if you prefer to manually install individual
+		packages, refer to "Method 3" in:
+
+			http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73016/
+
+		For font packages such as "newtxtt" and "nimbus15",
+		you must also update font-map database. See:
+
+			http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88423/
+
+		Note: If available, you can use the <package>.tds.zip,
+		which will automatically put the files in the right place.
+		Note that font packages should be copied to the TEXMFLOCAL
+		directory rather than to the TEXFMHOME directory.
+
+		Following is a list of links to optional packages as of
+		March 2017:
+
+			https://www.ctan.org/pkg/newtxtt
+			https://www.ctan.org/pkg/nimbus15
+			https://www.ctan.org/pkg/inconsolata
+			https://www.ctan.org/pkg/mathastext