It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so long...
I just got an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer to try out, and I could managed much resolution out of Debian 1.3's installed ghostscript. $ gs -h Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995) Now, the latest and greatest from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ is Aladdin Ghostscript 5.03, so the installed version is very old. Okay, so I notice that `non-free' has gs-aladdin 4.03-7. gs-aladdin 5.03-1 is available in unstable, but lists *no* related packages on the web page (This is a bug!). I downloaded it to find it needs: libc6, libjpegg6a, libpaperg (>= 1.0.3-4), libpng0g, svgalibg1, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), zlib1g So it's based on libc6... I presume I'm not the first to need Aladdin Ghostscript 5.03 to drive a recent printer. Should I just get the sources and install them over Debian's installed files? Do I need anything else? Will I screw up my Debian 1.3 system if I do so? I'm seeking advice here. Any pointers appreciated. Has anyone setup a Stylus 800 with gs-aladdin 4.03-7? What's the max you can do? How do you do it, since magicfilter is also too old to know about this printer? (I'm sure this happens a lot with users stuck on libc5, seeing their system get more and more dated. I like the `Debian' way better than the do-it-all-yourself way of Slackware, except when you *have* to do it yourself on Debian. Then it seems that the dependencies hinder you because you have to do something behind the system's back, which requires greater knowledge of how the system keep track of its dependencies) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
