ghostscript

[Sean]

Did you try rpmfind.net ? 


On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alex Morris wrote:

> 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
> >
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