ghostscript

[Alex Morris]

Alright, the good news is that using the "--nodeps" flag allowed me to
install ghostscript and the fonts RPM (well, once I installed ghostscript, I
didn't need --nodeps to install the fonts RPM).  The bad news, though, is
that Ben was right, no dvipdf (or dvipdfm).  I decided to look around the
'Net to find a package for dvipdfm and I found
http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/ -- apparently the "official" dvipdfm
page.  Of course, the link to the RPM is broken and it's on an HTTP server,
not FTP, so I can't check to see if it's just a typo...

So, back to square 1, where in the heck do I go to get dvipdfm in an RPM
package???

- Alex Morris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Pfaff" <pfaffben@msu.edu>
To: "Alex Morris" <egore100@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Greater Lansing Linux Users' Group" <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: ghostscript


> "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.
> --
> "You know, they probably have special dorms for people like us."
> --American Pie
>