Due to change of Artifex' license policy to do the head development of Ghostscript under GPL and the merger of the extra functionality of ESP Ghostscript (ESP Ghostscript is discontinued now), the packages gs-esp and gs-afpl got obsolete. They are both replaced by gs-gpl, version 8.60 or newer. I have already done a first test package:
For Gutsy download all packages from http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/gutsy/gs-gpl/binary/ and do sudo dpkg -i *gs-esp*.deb *gs-afpl*.deb *gs-gpl*.deb to replace your ESP and AFPL Ghostscript by the new merged GPL Ghostscript. If you are running Feisty or older download the files from http://www.openprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ into the same directory. Then do sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get build-dep gs-esp gs-gpl dpkg-source -x gs-gpl_8.60.dfsg.1-0ubuntu1.dsc cd gs-gpl-8.60.dfsg.1 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot cd .. sudo dpkg -i *gs-esp*.deb *gs-afpl*.deb *gs-gpl*.deb Answer every question which appears with "y", so that all needed packages get installed. Or try the distribution-independent binary package from http://www.openprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript- merge/README The new grand unified GPL Ghostscript will make it into Ubuntu soon, after - Agreeing on the name with Debian: "gs-gpl" or simply "gs" - Adding the C header files to libgs-gpl-dev - Fixing upstream bug 689237: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689237 Please tell us your results with the test packages. -- Ghostscript uses wrong font size with x11alpha (Dapper) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42446 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
