This text file is my notes for fixing the error 'sh: setfont: not found' when
excuting: cmatrix -l
sh: setfont: not found

after installing cmatrix via: aptitude install cmatrix
And not being able to use cmatrix -l switch I worked on fixing the error for 
awhile, then stopped.

To try to fix this (it didn't work) I did this:
Find latest version here: http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/dist/
cd ~
wget http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/dist/cmatrix-1.2a.tar.gz
tar xvzf cmatrix-1.2a.tar.gz && && cd cmatrix-1.2a && cat configure.in

From what I have read on configure.in I need:
1.) Either program setfont (in kbd, I don't have) or consolechars which I do 
have.
I don't want to install kbd as it, conflicts with my console-tools and wants
to remove it, no thank you: 
[snip]
     Remove the following packages:
1)     console-tools  
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n

2.) My consolefonts should be in the location that they are:
ls /usr/share/consolefonts | grep matrix
matrix.fnt
matrix.psf.gz

3.) place matrix font in current directory when running the cmd:
cd ~ && cp ~/cmatrix-1.2a/matrix.fnt ~/matrix.fnt
cp ~/cmatrix-1.2a/matrix.psf.gz ~/matrix.psf.gz
cp ~/cmatrix-1.2a/mtx.pcf ~/mtx.pcf

Nope - the -l switch still didn't work.

aptitude show cmatrix
Package: cmatrix                         
[snip]
Recommends: kbd
Suggests: cmatrix-xfont

su
aptitude install cmatrix-xfont
exit
cmatrix -l
sh: setfont: not found
Nope - the -l switch still didn't work.

ls /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc | grep m
mtx.pcf.gz

aptitude show cmatrix-xfont
[snip]
Depends: xfonts-utils

aptitude show xfonts-utils
[snip]

su
aptitude install kbd-compat
exit
cmatrix -l
Warning: this is a shell wrapper; consider using consolechars(8)
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
get_console_fd: Invalid argument

aptitude remove kbd-compat


Not yet (run test manual install first):
su
aptitude remove cmatrix
exit

Then manually installing cmatrix
cd ~
wget http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/dist/cmatrix-1.2a.tar.gz
tar xvzf cmatrix-1.2a.tar.gz && cd cmatrix-1.2a 
cat INSTALL
./configure
Reply:
[snip]
checking for consolechars... /usr/bin/consolechars
checking for setfont... no
checking for /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts... no
checking for /usr/share/consolefonts... yes
checking for mkfontdir... /usr/bin/mkfontdir
checking for /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc... no
checking for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc... no
configure: warning:  

*** You do not appear to have an X window fonts directory in the standard
*** locations (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc). The
*** mtx.pcf font will not be installed.  This means you will probably not
*** be able to use the mtx fonts in your x terminals, and hence be unable
*** to use the -x command line switch.  Sorry about that...
[snip]

hmmm seems that this needs to be edited to use a different directory?:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
Or what if one were to manually create that path...
I do have:
ls /usr/lib/X11 -al <- this is empty
ls /usr/lib -al
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Oct  5  2008 X11

cd /usr/lib/X11
su
mkdir fonts && cd fonts && mkdir misc
exit && cd ~/cmatrix-1.2a
./configure
That error is gone...
su
aptitude remove cmatrix
exit

make
make check
su
make install
Reply:
[snip]
 Installing matrix fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts...
 Installing X window matrix fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc...
 Running mkfontdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc...
 Done.  If this is the first time you have installed CMatrix you will
 probably have to restart X window in order to use the mtx.pcf font.

exit
ls -al /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    14 Apr 23 08:43 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24633 Apr 23 08:43 mtx.pcf

cmatrix
-bash: /usr/bin/cmatrix: No such file or directory
su
aptitude install cmatrix
y
y
exit
cmatrix -l
sh: setfont: not found
exit
I then log back into my shell:
cmatrix -l
Reply:
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
get_console_fd: Invalid argument

grrrrrrrrr, stop already, cmatrix is fine
me thinks this has to do with virtual terminal vs inside X.
Not sure...
moving on, I have other stuff to do!


MISC NOTES YET TO LOOK INTO FURTHER:
http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/fink_intel_10.6_64bit_sw/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/games/cmatrix.patch

echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

consolechars note, unrelated:
apt-cache search terminus
apt-get install console-terminus 
cd /usr/share/consolefonts
consolechars Uni3-Terminus12x6.psf.gz