Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 17:03, Ryan Pugatch<rpug at tripadvisor.com> wrote: >>> Would you care to show the output of "rpm -qi freetype"? >> Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. >> I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM. >> >> Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine. What should >> I do? > > If you have problems on 32-bit applications (I, for instance, used to > run a 32-bit Firefox on a 64-bit machine to get Flash support without > nspluginwrapper) you should build a 32-bit RPM and install it too. > > You can do that with this command: > > $ LDFLAGS=-m32 rpmbuild --target i386 -bb freetype.spec > > You might need to install glibc-devel.i386 and libX11-devel.i386 to > build that one. > > I also noticed that you rebuilt 2.2.1-20 while 2.2.1-21.el5_3 is > available, you might want to update it to the latest. > > I actually had a look at your last screenshot, and it does not seem > too bad... It looks like the quality is already much better, I believe > BCI is already working for you. If you still feel that an improvement > is needed, then you might want to switch to the msttcorefonts, you > might need to do that in Thunderbird's preferences though. > > HTH, > Filipe > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I agree that it looks better, but it doesn't seem to be as good as Ubuntu. I have Thunderbird using the msttcorefonts. Should rpm -qi freetype show both my built version and the other one as well? I don't remember how I ended up with the slightly older verison, but I can try updating. There's got to be some setting I'm missing that makes the fonts look just a bit better, because I think they still look rough. I have a screenshot from an Xubuntu install that I did and you can see the terminal in the shot. http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6611/screenshotohr.png Not exactly the best comparison, but you can see the terminal text is quite a bit clearer than on CentOS: http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4382/centk.jpg Thanks for your help, by the way. Ryan
