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Bug#531681: texlive-base-bin: should recommend ghostscript-x



Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007.dfsg.2-6
Severity: minor

Hi!

I have some documents that produces DVI files with some
PostScript code.  Xdvi used to be able to show them, but nowadays
prints the following error on start:

xdvik: write_to_gs: Broken pipe
gs: Unknown device: x11
gs: Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstallpagedevice
gs: Operand stack:
gs:     defaultdevice

This can be simply resolved by installing ghostscript-x (though this was
not obvious) which contains the x11 device.  Maybe a simple recommend would
do to enable this part of xdvi.
(Although I've noticed that it only suggests ghostscript, so there
may be other considerations involved.)

Kind regards,
Paul


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other files

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 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 864 May  6 10:50 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 14264 May  6 10:50 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 20 10:57 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May  6 10:46 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May  6 10:46 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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 Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 20 10:57 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4011 May  6 10:50 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9682 May  6 10:50 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4740 May  6 10:50 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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 Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Jun 20  2007 mktex.cnf
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 md5sums of texmf.d
42c20d7e8bd343542772b5a145bf8ad8  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
42c20d7e8bd343542772b5a145bf8ad8  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf.ucf-dist
5f7f6652cc8b8071c9e4ea6ba9e9f0a1  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
f68e5add6afd6585b982f2f78e2e6a92  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
7ae52efac46feb97010986e57877d12e  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf
37329819f1109e8a457e64b8b58fecdb  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
a8952d594677235951d447665ec46e9c  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
30f4f13357c2761ed01a6a15f28725a5  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii  dpkg                   1.15.2            Debian package management system
ii  ed                     1.3-4             The classic UNIX line editor
ii  libc6                  2.9-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.0-5         GCC support library
ii  libkpathsea4           2007.dfsg.2-6     TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090523-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.36-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler4            0.10.6-1          PDF rendering library
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.0-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                2:1.0.5-2         X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxmu6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                1:3.5.7-1         X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  mime-support           3.44-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                   5.10.0-22         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  tex-common             1.18              common infrastructure for building
ii  texlive-common         2007.dfsg.2-4     TeX Live: Base component
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii  texlive-base-bin-doc       2007.dfsg.2-6 TeX Live: Documentation files for 

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin suggests:
ii  evince [postscript-viewer] 2.26.1-2      Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  ghostscript [postscript-vi 8.64~dfsg-1.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  perl-tk                    1:804.028-4   Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer]   3.02-1.4      Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.26     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.15.2     Debian package management system
ii  ucf                           3.0018     Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn  tetex-base                 <none>        (no description available)
ii  tetex-bin                  2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
pn  tetex-extra                <none>        (no description available)
ii  tex-common                 1.18          common infrastructure for building

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