ghostscript installation

[lars at larsshack.org (Lars Kellogg-Stedman)]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 dmoylan at ibm.net wrote:

> the new set up has
> 	- binaries in /usr/local/bin, 
> 	- supporting stuff in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.50

I detest RPMs with this particular problem; at least on my own system, I
prefer /usr/local to be things I've built myself, and /usr to me
rpm-installed packages.  It makes management much easier.

My first suggestion would be to look for an RPM that doesn't insist on
dropping things in /usr/local.
 
> printtool, however, does not find ghostscript, and the printer as a 
> consequence, does not function.  

There are several solutions; the simplest is probably to create a symbolic
link in /usr/bin for gs:

  ln -s /usr/local/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs

When printtool looks for /usr/bin/gs it will find it.

Since you need to be root to run printtool, you may want to be sure that
/usr/local/bin is in *root's* PATH.

-- Lars

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