Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so
> long...
Yes this is a shame. I guess the switch had to be made sometime, but I
can't help feeling that it wouldn't have hurt to put it off a bit more.
> 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.
I have the new Stylus Color 600. I havn't been able to make it work at
all with the GS 4 stcolor driver. The printer light just flickers
forever and /var/log/messages fills up with 'resetting lp1' type
messages. I have tried a large number of things to make it work, but I
have of course missed the one that works (if there is one). The old st800
driver from gs 3 works, but it's not pretty.
> $ 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?
You may be close to the first. I have asked questions in a number of
places and only turned up one other person with one of this latest
generation from Epson. At least I think he had one of the latest, but the
fact that he said he had it working makes me wonder. Mayby he was using
GS 5.
> 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?
A knowledgable person (Anthony Fok) sent me his config file that he uses
for his Epson 500. I doesn't work for me, but I could send it to you, and
you could let me know if you figure out what needs toe changed.
> (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)
I think if you install everything in /usr/local you will be ok. I have
pretty much mirrored the directory structure of /usr in /usr/local, and I
havn't run into anything too terribly determined to be installed somewhere
else. Good luck!
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> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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