Ghostscript

[Nobody's Hero]

Can someone point me to a ghostscript package for linux RH9 that does not need to be compiled? Maybe an rpm file or something I can just explode?

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Robert,

I like hitting the Rpmfind site for these kinds of things. Try this:

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ghostscript&submit=Search+...

JP

[Stuart Browne]

Or the RH9 media ..

Or RedHat's FTP site:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ghostscript-fonts-*.rpm
+
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/os/i386/ghostscript*.rpm

[Steven E. Protter]

An interesting place to find older versions of ghostscript.

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon/html/ghostscript.html

yum info ghostscript shows

Name : ghostscript
Arch : i386
Version: 7.07
Release: 33
Size : 24 M
Repo : installed
Summary: A PostScript(TM) interpreter and renderer.

Description:
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)
interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which
implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and
an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript
translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like
those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally
used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to
non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to
non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you
install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts
package.


I am becoming an adherent to yum. Its gets good rpm files, handles dependencies and does all kinds of nice and wonderful things that should be done by an installer.

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