On Jan 18, 2005, at 5:00 PM, modeler wrote:

And this may well do it.  I've had ESP ghostscript installed at the
same time as Fink's, and the program that I was using found the ESP
version (under /usr/local) rather than Fink's.

Try running "type -a gs" (assuming you're using bash as your shell).
It should tell you where all of the instances of gs in your PATH are.

Thanks for quick turnaround, Alexander. There is but a single instance of gs. There are six more files with the same mod date 24 Aug 00:54, all beginning with the two letters "gs", all seven in /sw/bin.


I take it from your response that there might have been more than one set, and deletion of the wrong one would solve the problem.

Since I have but one, I suppose it is the ESP (wrong) version.
    (1) Is it OK & appropriate to delete those seven "gs" files?
    (2) How best to download and install the good ghostscript?

Thanks
<wk>


I believe you've already gotten an answer that's more applicable to your situation (PATH issues?) but as a general note, it's extremely bad practice ever to delete files manually from within /sw. You can find out which package installed a file by running:


dpkg -S <filename>

e.g. "dpkg -S fink" will return all instances of "fink" in your Fink tree.



--
Alexander Hansen
Fink Documentarian
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX



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