ghostscript

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:57:23PM -0400, Alex Morris spake:

> Alright, I finally bit the bullet and installed a real Linux OS -- Mandrake 7.0. 


What exactly do you mean 'a real Linux OS'? Compared to what?


> 
> [root@egore RPMS]# rpm -i ghostscript-5.10-17mdk.i586.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>  ghostscript-fonts is needed by ghostscript-5.10-17mdk
> [root@egore RPMS]# rpm -i ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk.noarch.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>  ghostscript is needed by ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk
> [root@egore RPMS]#
> 
> So, apparently, I need to install ghostscript-fonts before ghostscript.  However, ghostscript-fonts requires ghostscript.  WTF?  I figured that this might be because of the old RPM that I'm using, so I downloaded the ghostscript-5.5*.rpm and the corresponding ghostscript-fonts-5.5*.rpm .  I got the exact same errors when installing these.
> 
> So, my question is, what's going on?  And, is there a different way for me to get dvipdf ?
> 
> Oh, and as a disclaimer, I don't always use "root", just when things go wrong and I need to make sure permissions aren't a problem (such as when installing new RPM's...).
> 
> Thanks!
> - Alex Morris



rpm --nodeps will work


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