$ apt policy libgs9-common
libgs9-common:
Installed: 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Candidate: 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Version table:
*** 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com
Some maybe relevant info from the uri I posted
(https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59952):
Comment by Martin Pietsch (mpietsch) - Friday, 07 September 2018, 09:31 GMT
These three patches from the ghostscript git repository solve the problem:
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=c8
Public bug reported:
To reproduce this, in a fully updated Ubuntu 18.0.4, download
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf
and run:
$ pdf2ps dummy.pdf
It should generate a ps, but it crashes instead.
LONG DESCRIPTION:
I recently updated my Ubuntu 16.0.4 to Ubun