On 2009-05-05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > However, today in trying to use LyX:
> the history: >====== > 1-under Debian lenny I upgraded to Lyx1.6.2 (using a debian Lyx1.6.2 package). > Running a document (koma book) I got this error: > GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript > (this message is constantly repeated) > 2-I was adviced to replace Ghostscript 8.62 by Ghostscript 8.64. > Since it was not available under lenny, I used Debian squeeze, but things got > worse because I muddled up my debian lenny linux. ... > the question: >======== > is there anybody in the list who uses Debian lenny and LyX either 1.6.2 or > later svn versions successfully? Is she/he using Ghostscript 8.64 and from > where can I get a Debian package? I use LyX 1.6.2 and Ghostscript 8.64 from Debian/testing. You might try to add "testing" to your sources.list and issue ``apt-get update`` ``apt-get install ghostscript``. Or download just the ghostscript package and install with dpkg. Günter
