gs-aladdin 5.10 always crashing

[Alex Graf <agraf@sfu.ca>]

I installed the gs-aladdin package, but I get an error message like this
whenever I try to use gs:

$ gs
Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Unknown paper size: (A4).
Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in dup

Unexpected interpreter error -17.
Error object: dup(d84)name(0x818af74#449)
Execution stack at 0x818855c:
0x8191934: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x08079630 = %interp_exit
0x819193c: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0001 0x081950a4
0x8191944: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x081c89e6
Dictionary stack at 0x8188484:
0x8192164: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x081922bc
0x819216c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0819 0x081d5418
0x8192174: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0xbfff 0x0819928c
0x819217c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x081922bc

This is preventing me from printing any PostScripts or PDF or viewing
them with GV.  Any help on this would be appreciated.

Alex.