FEDORA: ec-incosolata font missing

Being developer of some R packages, I have to convert some R manual file using pdflatex. Under FEDORA, the conversion seems to work but some fonts are missing. It was not easy to figure out how to fix this issue. The missing font was ec-inconsolata. This font can be installed via yumex, however, pdflatex could not find it.

Trying this command for instance raise an error:

mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+540/600 --dpi 540 ec-inconsolata

I could not find anything in the list of packages that solve that issue. Under ubunti it is advice to install texlive-fonts-extra ut I could not found this pacakge in yumex. Finally, I found this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive and follow the intructions on how to install a new texlive repository and it solved my problem:

Being under Fedora 15, I typed:

sudo rpm -i http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc15/texlive-release.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum install texlive # if not already installed.
yum update

Finally, you need to install the fonts is not already done:

yum install texlive-inconsolata, texlive-inconsolata-font

For Fedora 17

sudo rpm -i http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/texlive-release.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum install texlive # if not already installed.
yum update
yum install tex-inconsolata, tex-inconsolata-font

yum install texlive-inconsolata, texlive-inconsolata-font

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