Avram Dorfman wrote:
 
> Ghostscript seems to be different in that there are actually two different
> packages. One is called "ghostscript" and the other is called
> "ghostscript6":
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> I tried "fink install ghostscript" previously, and it said "ghoscript
> conflicts with ghostcript6".

You are right, sorry. I thought ghostscript-7 had a "Replaces:
ghostscript6" field, but it doesn't. The other way round it works, that
is if you have ghostscript-7 installed and say "fink install
ghostscript6", then it removes ghostscript and installs ghostscript6. I
would see this as a bug in the ghostscript-7.02-2.info file.

What I would do is 

% sudo dpkg --remove ghostscript6
This will not succeed, but it will tell you if there are packages (like
pdftex or tetex-base) that directly depend on ghostscript6 and not via
ghostscript. Remove any such package, because it will probably make
problems afterwards, or hope that it will not.

% sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends ghostscript6
This will succeed.

% fink install ghostscript
This will install ghostscript-7.02

-- 
Martin

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