Re: problem installing Y&Y Lucida Bright fonts

> For years I have been using the commercial Lucida Bright fonts from Y&Y,
> by putting the .pfb files in a separate tree /opt/share/texmf/fonts/.

Just to make sure: if you set up /opt/share/texmf as an
additional texmf tree, the pfb files have to be somewhere below
/opt/share/texmf/fonts/type1.

> [I have the fonts in /opt/share/texmf/fonts/ and some additional
> in /opt/share/texmf/latex/, etc.  Actually, I put software which does not

texmf/latex is not included in any search path by default. I think that
you propably mean texmf/tex/latex.

> However, after upgrading from Linux Fedore Core 3 to 4 (and tetex from
> 2.0.2-21.3 to 3.0-4) mktexpk can't find the fonts any more: xdvi spawns
> error messages like

Hm... How about this:

  $ updmap --listmaps 2>&- | grep 'Map lu'
  Map lucidabr.map
  Map lumath.map
  Map lucidabr-o.map
  Map lumath-o.map

You might need to run updmap-sys --edit or updmap --edit to enable the
map files for lucida.

> What am I doing wrong here, and what is the recommended way/place to
> include additional packages and fonts, if you wish to keep them separate
> from the standard distribution tree?

Setting up a custom TEXMFLOCAL tree is perfectly ok. Maybe, all you
missed was to set up the map files.

Thomas