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I am trying to use a paratype font by putting the following into the preamble of my document:

RequirePackage{paratype}

renewcommand*familydefault{sfdefault}

RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}

This works fine on my work machine, but on my personal machine I am getting the following error message when I try to compile my document:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+340/600 --dpi 940 PTSans-Italic-tlf-t1--base

mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for PTSans-Italic-tlf-t1--base.

mktexpk: perhaps PTSans-Italic-tlf-t1--base is missing from the map file.

kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

I have tried to fix this with updmap (I realize there are downsides to using updmap-user as opposed to updmap-sys; that is not what I care about at the moment however):

sudo updmap-user --force --enable Map=paratype-truetype.map

Here is the output from the above command:

updmap [WARNING]: resetting $HOME value (was /home/username) to root's actual home (/root).

updmap will read the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):

  /root/.texlive2017/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg

  /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg

  /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg

  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg

updmap may write changes to the following updmap.cfg file:

  /root/.texlive2017/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg

dvips output dir: "/root/.texlive2017/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"

pdftex output dir: "/root/.texlive2017/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"

dvipdfmx output dir: "/root/.texlive2017/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap"

updmap [WARNING]: font PTSans-Narrow-tlf-t1--base is defined multiple times:

updmap [WARNING]:   paratype-type1.map (from /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)

updmap [WARNING]:   paratype-truetype.map (from /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg) (used)

... (ommitting many similar warnings) ...



updmap is creating new map files

using the following configuration:

  LW35 font names                  : URWkb (default)

  prefer outlines                  : true (default)

  texhash enabled                  : true

  download standard fonts (dvips)  : true (default)

  download standard fonts (pdftex) : true (default)

  jaEmbed replacement string       : noEmbed (default)

  jaVariant replacement string     : <empty> (default)

  scEmbed replacement string       : noEmbed (default)

  tcEmbed replacement string       : noEmbed (default)

  koEmbed replacement string       : noEmbed (default)

  create a mapfile for pxdvi       : false (default)



Scanning for LW35 support files  [  3 files]

Scanning for MixedMap entries    [ 50 files]

Scanning for KanjiMap entries    [ 11 files]

Scanning for Map entries         [265 files]



Generating output for dvipdfmx...

Generating output for ps2pk...

Generating output for dvips...

Generating output for pdftex...



Files generated:

  /root/.texlive2017/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap:

       15786 2018-10-11 14:15:12 builtin35.map

       21259 2018-10-11 14:15:12 download35.map

     2445741 2018-10-11 14:15:12 psfonts_pk.map

     2706850 2018-10-11 14:15:12 psfonts_t1.map

     2700806 2018-10-11 14:15:12 ps2pk.map

          14 2018-10-11 14:15:14 psfonts.map -> psfonts_t1.map

  /root/.texlive2017/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap:

     2700813 2018-10-11 14:15:14 pdftex_dl14.map

     2699148 2018-10-11 14:15:13 pdftex_ndl14.map

          15 2018-10-11 14:15:14 pdftex.map -> pdftex_dl14.map

  /root/.texlive2017/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap:

        6706 2018-10-11 14:15:12 kanjix.map



Transcript written on "/root/.texlive2017/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.log".

updmap: Updating ls-R files.

However when I go to look at the generated files in my file explorer it appears they have not been updated; the date on them is 9/27/2018. I am at a loss; many other answers I have looked at suggest that running updmap should fix this issue.

I will note that adding pdfmapfile{+paratype-truetype.map} to the preamble of my document fixes the problem, but this is not a good permanent solution.

I am running Xubuntu 18.04, TexLive 2017.

The solution, which I got from Ulrike Fischer's comment, was to run

updmap-user --force --enable Map=paratype-truetype.map

I have no idea why including sudo would make a difference here. If anyone can provide any insight I would be very interested to learn!