ghostscript installation

[dmoylan at ibm.net (dmoylan at ibm.net)]

thanks to christoph doerbec, lars kellogg-stedman, mike bilow, mark dulcey  
all of whom offered suggestions.  the symlink in /usr/bin  worked fine.

this lead me on to the next step in my quest to get my hp882c printer to
utilize its black cartridge instead of cmy color mixing.  i had compiled
ghostscript with hpdj-2.6 which was reputed to fix this problem (after
putting a mod in gs-init.ps).  of course printtool didn't know about this,
so i fumbled around and added a new printer in
/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/printerdb, but though it showed up in
printtool, when selected, it didn't work.  

however in the process i discovered that the hp deskjet/deskjetplus
selection produces genuine b&w using the black ink cartridge which will
then work for the majority of my printing, and the paintjet xl300 selection
still produces color if i need it, even if the black uses color mixing.  

meanwhile i'll go on and fumble some more.

thanks for the help,
dan

> on a redhat 5.2 system, i replaced gs4.03 with a new download of gs5.50,
> and compiled and installed it.
> 
> the original set up had
> 	- binaries in /usr/bin, 
> 	- supporting stuff in /usr/share/ghostscript/4.03
> the new set up has
> 	- binaries in /usr/local/bin, 
> 	- supporting stuff in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.50
> 
> running gs from the command line seems to work fine, as /usr/local/bin
> is in my path.
> 
> printtool, however, does not find ghostscript, and the printer as a 
> consequence, does not function.  
> 
> what do i need to do?

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