ghostscript

[Alex Morris]

I had been using FreeBSD which is not Linux.  This is a Linux User's Group.
Hence, I decided to install a real Linux (Mandrake in this case) instead of
a Unix (FreeBSD).  That's all I meant.  That way, people couldn't say: this
is a LUG, he's using a BSD (a Unix), not Linux, let him learn the hard
way...

I did not mean to say that one distro is better than any other, or anything
like that.

- Alex Morris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel R . Kilbourne" <drk@voyager.net>
To: "Alex Morris" <egore100@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Greater Lansing Linux Users' Group" <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: ghostscript


> 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
>
>
> --
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Daniel R. Kilbourne
> daniel.kilbourne@voyager.net
> Voyager.net Network Engineer
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>