Things to look for

March 2019 see below for instructions from https://pctex.com/kb/62.html

things to check when tom can't run dvips (and Amit too)

on his textbook and other stuff with the same latex setup..

NEW - I changed tom's *.fd files to only have lower case font names in them. Then I edited /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps and added
```
p +/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/mt-plus.map
```
which points to a new map file with the map file for teh y+y fonts in it. Now it seems that psfonts.map is no longer included, and the program updmap is no longer included.
check /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/psfonts.map
look for
```
RMTMI  RMTMI <RMTMI.pfb
MTSYN  MTSYN <MTSYN.pfb
RMTMIB RMTMIB <RMTMIB.pfb
MTEX   MTEX <MTEX.pfb
MTMS   MTMS <MTMS.pfb 
MTSYB  MTSYB <MTSYB.pfb
```
Usually this is enough to fix things. The times fonts seem to come with RedHat linux nowadays.
running /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/updmap will make a new psfonts.map
this will overwrite what was done above
edit /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps
uncomment the lines for Type1 as specified
check /usr/share/texmf/ls-R
  first cd to /usr/share/texmf, then
  run /usr/bin/mktexlsr
  this is necessary if fonts are added
fonts are in..
  /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/MathTimes/ (tfm)
  /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/MathTimesPlus/ (tfm)
  /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/MathTime/ (pfb)
  /usr/share/texmf/dvips/pfb/MathTime/ (pfb)
  not sure which of last two is read.. looks like
  /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/MathTime

  /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/MathTime
  /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/MathTimePlus

as of Jan 2017

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
add these lines to config.ps
p +/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
p +/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/dvips/mtpro2/mtpro2.map
p +/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/mtpro2/mtpro2.map
slightly related - there were some perl errors having to do with bootstapping DynaLoader. using the cpan command to upgrade everything seemed to fix it on tahoe.

March 2019 https://pctex.com/kb/62.html

[The following installation method has been tested on a Linux system running teTeX 3.0. It should be applicable to any teTeX 3.0 and to systems using TeX Live 2004/2005.]

Where to install

Additions like the MTPro II fonts should go into the local TEXMF-tree. You can find its location with the command

$ kpsexpand \$TEXMFLOCAL

[Note that the commandline prompt '$' is used for ordinary users. '#' is used for root. On some sytems you will have to use 'sudo' to obtain root privileges.]

In the following, TEXMFLOCAL will be used for this location. Installation of the files

Unpack the ZIP file into a temporary directory. Among other things, you will get a directory called 'texmf' with subdirectories 'doc', 'dvips', 'fonts', 'source', 'tex', and 'tpm'. Copy these subdirectories excluding 'dvips' to TEXMFLOCAL. Afterwards, refresh the file-name database with the command

# mktexlsr

Registering the map file

The map file 'mtpro2.map' is registered for use with dvips, pdftex, xdvi, ... using the command

# updmap-sys --enable Map mtpro2.map

[Note that on TeX Live on Windows you might have to use

# updmap-sys --enable Map=mtpro2.map

instead.] If you had copied the 'dvips' subdirectory, too, calling updmap-sys would have produced a warning

!!! WARNING: Identical copy of used file for `mtpro2.map'
exists in obsolete location
TEXMFLOCAL/dvips/mtpro2/mtpro2.map
Please, consider removing this file.

This warning is harmless, but it is still better to remove the map file from this obsolete location. Now, the MTPro II fonts should be ready to use. If there are errors, please check with kpsewhich that files like 'mtpro2.sty', 'mtp2.tex', 'mt2mit.tfm', and 'mt2bmit.pfb' are found by TeX, dvips, .... Also make sure that the mapfile used ('kpsewhich psfonts.map', 'kpsewhich pdftex.map', ...) contain the relevant entries. For example:

$ grep mt2bmit $(kpsewhich pdftex.map)
mt2bmit MT2BMIT 

[Thanks to Ralf Stubner]
Keywords: fonts, install, mtpro2