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

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