ghostscript

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
19 Oct 2000 18:59:37 -0400


"Alex Morris" <egore100@hotmail.com> writes:

> This is what happens when I try to install it:
> 
> [root@egore RPMS]# rpm -i ghostscript-5.10-17mdk.i586.rpm=20
> error: failed dependencies:
>  ghostscript-fonts is needed by ghostscript-5.10-17mdk
> [root@egore RPMS]# rpm -i ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk.noarch.rpm=20
> error: failed dependencies:
>  ghostscript is needed by ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk
> [root@egore RPMS]#

I know almost nothing about rpm.  But, by analogy with dpkg, try:
	rpm -i ghostscript-5.10-17mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk.noarch.rpm
and see what you get.

> So, my question is, what's going on?  And, is there a different
> way for me to get dvipdf ?

At least on Debian, gs doesn't include dvipdf, it's in a separate
and mostly unrelated package named dvipdfm.
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