Comments on: Updating Ghostscript on CentOS 5.2 (ghostscript 8.63)

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[...] while back I wrote an article on updating to ghostscript 8.63 on CentOS 5.2. I received a fair amount of email and comments on the topic ranging from “thanks” to [...]

By: Angus

Angus — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:18:49 +0000

No need to remove ghostscript first.

I just grabbed all the rpm’s (thanks Chris) using wget.

put all the packages as args to rpm and it will handle the upgrade.

rpm -Uvh ghostscript-8.63-1.i386.rpm centos52/ghostscript-devel-8.63-1.i386.rpm ghostscript-gtk-8.63-1.i386.rpm

I presume you could skip the wget process and just give rpm a list of the http’s resources.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:06:12 +0000

Thanks for the info and for hosting the files making installation a snap.

By: james

james — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:02:18 +0000

You Rocks man
Thanks for sharing…

By: Tian

Tian — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:10:10 +0000

Very useful. I just wonder why not replace the old 8.15 version with the newest one in CentOS 5.2.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:37:00 +0000

Interesting, I’m in the same position. We have seen that 8.15 has issues with newer PDFs. I’ve run into a problem with your RPMs. I get complains on the ghostscript-fonts dependency:

error: Failed dependencies:
ghostscript-fonts is needed by ghostscript-8.63-1.i386

The older 8.15 ghostscript-fonts from the repo doesn’t satisfy the dependency. I’m curious to know how you were able to install without fonts?

Would you mind posting your spec files for your RPMs?

Thanks!

By: benjamin Indermühle

benjamin Indermühle — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:35:23 +0000

It would be nice to have source rpms or at least the specfiles of your rpms.
No offense but I have an issue with just using binaries from a source which I dont trust.
Thanks Alot

By: Ljubomir

Ljubomir — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:19:24 +0000

First, thanks for compiling this, I saved considerable time.

Jasper is available via EPEL project repositories http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL, along with lot of other stuff.

You might consider contributing ghostscript packages via their repository, it would be much easier for all CentOS community.

Also, I have seen new 8.64 version is out, with some 100 bugs fixed and some improvements: http://www.ghostscript.com/GPL_Ghostscript_8.64.html. I hope you have some time to build that versions rpm’s.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:44 +0000

Hi Chris,

is there a possibility to get the x86_64 version of your ghostscript version? I tried to build for myself, but it failed everytime.

Thanks.

Marcus

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:29:26 +0000

Solved.
Thanks.