On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:53, Karl Rubin wrote: > > I have system-ghostscript 7.05-3 installed. When I try to install > > gv, I, get: > > > > > The following package will be installed or updated: > > > gv > > > The following additional package will be installed: > > > system-ghostscript > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > > > If I say "yes", it tries to downgrade my system-ghostscript to 6.01-1: > > > > > dpkg - warning: downgrading system-ghostscript from 7.05-3 to 6.01-1. > > > > This fails, telling me that I don't have ghostscript 6.01 installed > > (which is correct, I have 7.05). The downgrading didn't happen (last > > week) when I did the same thing on another machine. > > > I looked at the .info files for system-ghostscript-7.05-3 and > system-ghostscript6-6.01-1, and I saw something striking: > > system-ghostscript6-6.01-1: > ... > Provides: ghostscript, ghostscript6, ghostscript-fonts > ... > > system-ghostscript-7.05-3: > ... > Provides: ghostscript-nox, ghostscript-fonts
I think this is correct, and perhaps the system-ghostscript6 package was in error. I don't believe GW's ghostscript included an X11 driver until v8. gv needs the x11 driver. I think you need to install fink ghostscript for gv to work. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
