gnucah won't load

[Dan Black]

The solution seemed to be:

>>>> Had the same problem here. Turned out to be a font problem. Install
>>>> xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts and/or xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts to solve the
>>>> problem. For some reason these are not installed with the default
MDK


On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:03, ED Antrobus wrote:
> In the archives I found the problem I'm having, but I could not find
> the resolution.  I am running Mandrake 10.1 on a P4 1.8GHz with 1GB
> RAM  GnuCash was installed from the Mandrake install disks when I did
> a clean install of Mandrake.  The version of GnuCash is 1.8.9
> When I try to run gnucash from the menu, I get the splash screen,
> modules load, and then nothing.  I tried running it from console and
> got the following error message:
> 
> The font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" does
> not support all the required character sets for the current locale
> "en_US"
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
> Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback
> font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
>  
> I get the same error message for
> "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*_120-*-*-*-*-*-*" also.
> How can I get around this/install the missing font?
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