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I am running the latest UP 6 LMDE freshly installed, the mate edition. This is
a wonderful distro and I am very fond of it , I should admit .
However I found a weird bug in the ghostscript package
2) problems when trying to print, run gs,ps2pdf, atril (to view a postscript
doc)
3) getting this:
a) cannot print with cups (brother hl-2230),
b) cannot view postscript files nor run gs/gv, nor ps2pdf utility getting the
versions mismatch:
ghostscript: gs: Interpreter revision (871) does not match gs_init.ps revision
(905)
c) when running "gs --version" or "ghostscript --version" get 8.71, which is
wrong, since 9.02 is installed according to dpkg-query
4) Expecting to not have the problems above
5) The problem happens all the time
6) possible way to reproduce is:
a) install the latest lmde 201303 (not the rc version)
b) try adding and using a printer --> it won't
c) try running gs/gv or viewing a postscript with gv or atril/evince, they won't
d) try ghostscript --version and get 8.71, which is wrong, since 9.05~dfsg-6.2
is installed.
More info:
I started noticing some weird issues first with cups. I try to add a printer
(brother HL2230) and from the past experience I know which ppd file would work
with it (it did with my previous Ubuntu 10.04). Everything goes well until I
get to print something, it simply won't. I try different ppds and configs.
Nothing helps. Although cups debugging is enabled, the logs won't give me much
clue, and I see that cups-admin would say something like "cups-filter error". I
try upgrading cups and cups-filters using the sid repos, it won't help either.
Interestingly and weirdly though, I got two other machines running lmde fully
updated without any cups problem -- I can print from them just fine.
There is one difference though, lmde was installed before the Update
Pack 6 and then updated to it. It gives some clue, but not much, until I
try viewing a postscript file. Atril (a mate-document-viewer) says it
can't. What???? Then I try postscript tools like ps2pdf, gv they all
fail, saying that there is problem in the gs_init.ps file. I do
gs --version and get "8.71"
What??? I thoroughly check and see that there is only dfsg-6.2_amd64
installed, the gs_init.ps wants of course 905. Hence the versions
mismatch. . I try reinstalling it, purging and removing the apt archive,
it would insist on the "8.71" version. I check the other lmde machines
and see they are using the same 9.05~dfsg-6.2_amd64 version. The I
notice that it's they also have an earlier version 9.05~dfsg-6_amd64 in
the apt archive.
So I guessed that there might some incorrect configurations when
9.05~dfsg-6.2_amd64 are installed afresh. So I add the sid repos to
upgrade to 9.05~dfsg-6.3_amd64 and lo and behold this fixes it!
Hence my WORKARAOUND:
upgrade to ghostscript and ghostscript-{-x,cups} 9.05~dfsg-6.3_amd64 that is
now in Debian sid by adding in /etc/apt/sources.list:
#sid repos
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
** Affects: ghostscript (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: ghostscript (Debian)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ghostscript version mismatch in 9.05~dfsg-6.2_amd64,
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1168487
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