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...
>
> 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?
Hi,
i am the maintainer of gs-aladdin. I understand that a libc5 version of
gs-aladdin 5.03 is urgently required. Unfortulnately it is quite difficult
(at least for me) to produce it working on a libc6 system.
This week-end i went home and installed Debian 1.3 on my old computer,
so i was able to obtain a libc5 gs-aladdin 5.03! (I'll upload it
this night).
I am sorry for the delay of my answer, but i did not read the
mail since Friday. Hopefully the new version will solve your problems...
Thank you,
Marco
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