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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