Hi all

I've just been moving from RedHat to Debian and I really like the apt-get command. No more looking for RPMs to because of dependency problems.


Now I've setup debian stable for a server, and the only problem is that the Ghostscript is old - it will not process a lot of PDF files I have correctly.

So I added unstable to sources.list so I can use packages from unstable by using "apt-get -t unstable gs-aladdin"

But I got " AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 (2002-01-31)" - why such old ghostscript in unstable?

I managed to compile Ghostscript 8.12 from source, and now I have it under /usr/local/ghostscript

What's the debian way of this situation, should I
- compile it with --prefix=/usr
- make a debian package myself? (need to learn a lot)
- use symlinks to trick programs like ImageMagick to use the newer ghostscript?
- or is there some other way?

Best regards,
Guttorm

Hi,

did you update your /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable sources and did a apt-get update before installing ?

should be (e.g.)

(uncomment last line after gs installation and rauthor unstable to stable again!)

regards

Hi again

Sorry for late answer, I wasn't paying attention to this thread.

My problem was not incorrect apt settings, but I wanted newer AFPL Ghostscript that seems not to be maintained in debian anymore.

Instead, I compiled my own ghostscript with downloads from ghostscript.com

It is not necessary if you don't need any 8.0 features.

Best regards,
Guttorm.