Fonts Needed for the Reporting Service

The Reporting Service depends upon certain system libraries and resources that are usually included in standard Linux distributions. However, certain lightweight flavors of Linux may be lacking the requirements, primarily font libraries. The Reporting Service requires Fontconfig and FreeType installed as well as at least one sans-serif font. Errors in the reporting server log will indicate missing components, such as a missing libfontconfig.so file.

The following table lists one operating systems and the commands to install the required libraries:

Operating SystemCommand

CentOS 6.1, 6.2; CentOS 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5, Fedora 14

$ yum install fontconfig freetype urw-base35-fonts

$ yum groupinstall hebrew-support

$ yum langinstall he_IL

CentOS 8.x, Redhat 8.x, and Redhat 9.x

$ yum install fontconfig

$ yum groupinstall Fonts # Only needed for Chinese/Japanese

Ubuntu 8, 12, 14

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig

$ sudo apt-get install language-support-he language-pack-he

$ sudo apt-get install culmus culmus-fancy xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib xfonts-intl-european msttcorefonts

Ubuntu 13

$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig

$ sudo apt-get install language-support-he language-pack-he

$ sudo apt-get install culmus culmus-fancy xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib xfonts-intl-european msttcorefonts

See Administer the Reporting Service for information on configuring the service.