I have a program, Mup, that depends on ghostscript. For some reason
Ghostscript seems to have stopped working. Usually I find it safest to
reinstall the Slack version of such a package.

Is Ghostscript (not GV) on the 10.1 distribution? If so, in what collection?
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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

John Culleton wrote:

> I have a program, Mup, that depends on ghostscript. For some reason
> Ghostscript seems to have stopped working. Usually I find it safest to
> reinstall the Slack version of such a package.
>
> Is Ghostscript (not GV) on the 10.1 distribution? If so, in what
> collection?

First, try running this:

gs -h

You may get usefull error output that tells you why Ghostscript isn't
working. If you do get that, post it here.

John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> Is Ghostscript (not GV) on the 10.1 distribution? If so, in what collection?

Package /espgs-7.07.1-i486-2 in the "ap" dir of the first CD.
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Jim wrote:

> John Culleton wrote:
>
>> I have a program, Mup, that depends on ghostscript. For some reason
>> Ghostscript seems to have stopped working. Usually I find it safest to
>> reinstall the Slack version of such a package.
>>
>> Is Ghostscript (not GV) on the 10.1 distribution? If so, in what
>> collection?
>
> First, try running this:
>
> gs -h
>
> You may get usefull error output that tells you why Ghostscript isn't
> working. If you do get that, post it here.

Aha! I got no error output as such, but since fonts were the problem I
studied that line. It said fonts were to be found
on /usr/local//share/ghostscript/fonts/ But that directory did not exist!

So I executed
find /usr -name fonts
which eventually spewed out /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts

So I linked that dude to /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts and suddenly
things started working again. I have ghostscript 8.5 installed, apparently
something I did in a stupor induced by too much COBOL programming. And the
pointers go to /usr/local/share, not /usr/share

The other response was helpful also. I would not have thought to look for
Ghostscript under that name--espgs.
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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> The other response was helpful also. I would not have thought to look for
> Ghostscript under that name--espgs.

That's what it is, the ESP version of GhostScript (and not the Aladdin
cq GNU/Aladdin version, which it used to be until Aladdin tightened
their license terms. So Pat reflected that change in the package name.
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