[cups.general] Cups

Guenther Frick gfrick at gmx.net
Sun May 9 13:20:08 PDT 2004


Bernd Schubert wrote:

>>Also the path /usr/share/gs-esp/... instead of
>>/usr/share/ghostscript/... could be wrong.
> 
> 
> The output of 'gs-esp -h' says it searches for the the files there, so how
> should gs-pathes related with cups?
> Anyway, I linked /usr/share/gs-esp/7.07 with /usr/share/ghostscript/7.07 and
> it didn't help.
> 
> 
>>You could fix it with soft-links.
>>CUPS is very sensitive. :-)
> 
> 
> All of this would be much easier to debug, if there would be intermediate
> files.
> 
> I only see a chance to find the problem, by replacing all related
> filterprograms by a wrapper program, that write the output of the real
> filters into files *and* the usual pipe (stdout).
> 
For that thing Mike Sweet should answer.
If you compile ESP Ghostscript yourself in will be placed under
/usr/local/bin/...
You could however compile with --prefix=/usr/bin
But people reported that it didn't suffice.
You would set the path by hand.

You could also try to deinstall AFPL Ghostscript.





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