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How to get the Rupee symbol in Latex

These days it is available in texlive-fonts-extra package of Debian. To get it working by downloading from CTAN, do the following:

1. Download tfrupee package zip file from the CTAN website.
2. unzip tfrupee.zip
3. You will find the tfrupee directory that contains doc/, fonts/ and other files.
4. It is quite easy to install this package in a customized location (at the time of writing) in Debian. Suppose, we wish to installed it in ${HOME}/install/texmf directory.
5. export TEXMFHOME=${HOME}/install/texmf
6. First double-check if the dirctory name is correct.
7. echo ${TEXMFHOME}
8. If the name is not correct, go back to one and set the name correctly.
9. mkdir ${TEXMFHOME}
10. Copy the unziped files to this TEXMFHOME directory
11. rsync -av doc ${TEXMFHOME}/
12. rsync -av fonts ${TEXMFHOME}/
13. rsync -av tex ${TEXMFHOME}/
14. Generate the database.
15. mktexlsr $TEXMFHOME
16. Create the map.
17. updmap --enable Map tfrupee.map

That is all. Here's a simple latex file to test if your setup works.

\documentclass{minimal}

\usepackage[paperwidth=2.5in,paperheight=0.6in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tfrupee}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\scalebox{4}{\rupee 1.00}
\end{document}

To compile it, just do

export TEXMFHOME=${HOME}/install/texmf
pdflatex r.tex

Here is the output.