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Re: [PLUG] Font/ghostscript help needed
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On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 19:24, Arthur Alexion wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> On 8/23/01, 6:19:41 PM, Arthur Alexion <arthur@alexion.com> wrote regarding
> Re: [PLUG] Font/ghostscript help needed:
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> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> > On 8/23/01, 4:42:25 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com> wrote
> > regarding Re: [PLUG] Font/ghostscript help needed:
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> > > At 05:22 PM 8/23/2001 +0000, Arthur Alexion wrote:
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> > > >I will take your advice. I tried upgrading to the "commercial, but free
> > > >for personal use" version once before, but the upgraded version used
> > > >different directories, and the printer could not find it anymore. What
> > > >did I do wron, or what did I fail to do right?
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> > > I don't know what you did wrong or right, since I wasn't
> > > there. What I CAN tell you is that if you run old versions of software
> > > (esp. ones that "suck rocks through a garden hose"), all bets are off!
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> > To be safe, I downloaded both the Alladin 7.0
> > ghostscript (newest) and the RedHat/GNU 6.51 ghostscript (newest of that
> > category). I'll query the rpms to see what directories they will use and
> > install the newest that is compatible with my directory structure.
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> EGad! 5.50 is ~4.5 MB, 7.0 is about the same. 6.51 is over 23 MB
> because it seems to have all of these foreign character support files
> that I don?t need. Problem is that both gnorpm and kpackage refuse to
> load the 7.0 rpm. The error is that "only packages with major numbers
> <=3 are supported by this version". I don't know what that means since
> neither balks at 6.51
It means that the RPM you're using was made on a system using RPM v4.x.
IOW, you're using a package made for redHat 7 on RedHat 6. You'd get the
same error using a Mandrake 8 package on Mandrake 7.x.
Try picking up the SRC RPM, and rebuilding it yourself. The are no RPM
compatibility problems that way. (altho you may have unmet dependency
issues that could prevent rebuilding)
rpm --rebuild ghostscript-v7.src.rpm
as root
then, look for the rebuilt RPM file in
/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/(your processor) - i.e. i686.
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