Pango problems

[jorj]

I pared my sources list to etch and upgraded 161 packages which seemed to go smoothly, but when I tried to run Synaptic, gvim and some others, I get pango-Warning**: No built in or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
'/etc/pango/pango.modules
You may be able to create this file by running
pango pango-querymodules

Needless to say, I wasn't. I get a pango command not found.

I really need help on this because so many things rely of pango.

Thanks in advance jorj

[bluesdog]

I don't even have pango.modules on my machine. /etc/pango contains only pangox.aliases, a symlink to /var/lib/defoma/pango.d/pangox.aliases

Anyway, what happens when you type $ dpkg -l libpango*
afaik, pango deals with defoma, the Debian font manager, so also use the dpkg -l command to check the installation status of the following:

defoma
dfontmgr
fontconfig
psfontmgr
x-ttcidfont-conf

[jorj]

I don't even have pango.modules on my machine. /etc/pango contains only pangox.aliases, a symlink to /var/lib/defoma/pango.d/pangox.aliases

Anyway, what happens when you type $ dpkg -l libpango*
afaik, pango deals with defoma, the Debian font manager, so also use the dpkg -l command to check the installation status of the following:

defoma
dfontmgr
fontconfig
psfontmgr
x-ttcidfont-conf


dpkg -l for each of the files you listed, gives me either a not installed or not found. Do I try to install each?

Thanks for the help bluesdog jorj

[bluesdog]

On my machine:]$ dpkg -l libpango* defoma dfontmgr fontconfig psfontmgr x-ttcidfont-conf
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-================-================-================================================
ii defoma 0.11.10-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font configurat
ii dfontmgr 0.11.10-0.1 GUI frontend for Defoma, DEbian FOnt MAnager
ii fontconfig 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library - support bin
un libpango-common <none> (no description available)
un libpango0 <none> (no description available)
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internationalized text
ii libpango1.0-comm 1.14.8-5 Modules and configuration files for the Pango
ii psfontmgr 0.11.10-0.1 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, Debia
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 25.1 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X
I'd suggest a simulation first, and if nothing suggests it's going to break stuff, go ahead and install 'em. Incidentally, also make sure you have msttcorefonts installed

Syntax for a simulation: # apt-get update
# apt-get install libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common defoma dfontmgr fontconfig psfontmgr x-ttcidfont-conf msttcorefonts -s Remove the '-s' to actually install.
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