On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 22:38, Alan McConnell wrote: > Greetings! > > I have just installed Woody, from four CDs made by a friend. In > trying to set up my printing, I discovered that "apsfilter" wants > a ghostscript of 5.5 or greater, while Woody gives only 5.1.
Install gs-aladdin instead (currently packaged at v6.5)! It's in non-free. And if it's not in Woody you can add the unstable locations to your sources.list, apt-get update, get it, then comment the stable locations and run apt-get update again. (I wonder when 7.0 will be packaged). Package: gs-aladdin Priority: extra Section: non-free/text Installed-Size: 6996 Maintainer: Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 6.50-5 Replaces: gs Provides: gs, postscript-viewer Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2), libpaperg (>= 1.0.7), libpng2, svgalibg1 | svgalib-dummyg1, xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), defoma Recommends: gsfonts (>=4.01-3) Suggests: gs-pdfencrypt Conflicts: gs, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both Filename: pool/non-free/g/gs-aladdin/gs-aladdin_6.50-5_i386.deb Size: 2206414 MD5sum: 500536441cb4c0208668b7831fba8d2b Description: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview support. This version is Aladdin copyright, not GNU copyleft, see /usr/share/doc/gs-aladdin/copyright. . Ghostscript is used for postscript preview and printing. Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display postscript documents in an X11 environment. It can also use the Linux svga library to display documents graphically on the Linux console. . Furthermore, it can render postscript files as graphics to be printed on non-postscript printers. Supported printers include common dot-matrix, inkjet and laser models. . Package gsfonts contains a set of standard fonts for ghostscript. . You have to install the gs-pdfencrypt package to be able to preview encrypted pdf files. That package is in the nonus distribution due to the stupid US regulations about exporting cryptographic software (please look under ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US to find it). . The Ghostscript home page is at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html . This package also contains the hpdj driver contributed by Martin Lottermoser. So you didn't need to try and build it yourself at all :-) Note that version 6.51 IS NOW GPL SOFTWARE. It just hasn't been repacked for Debian yet (and 7.0 packaged as gs-aladdin). Regards, Adam
