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From: "David H. Funte" <none>
Subject: Steps to installing gs ghostscript from SCO Skunkware 2000
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:52:39 -0600

Over the last couple weeks, I have been trying to install ghostscript from
the Skunkware 2000 CD on SCO OSR 5.05 and OSR 5.04.  I've had many
problems - but now it is working fine.  The main problems were due to an
insufficient installation procedure.   It doesn't check the OS to see if all
requirements are present.   When an error occurs, I was left searching all
over for the answer.

This post is a recap of those items which fixed my installation.

#1) I didn't have the Graphics portion of OSR loaded.  Ghostscript uses some
of the libraries that are installed with that package.   I used "custom" to
load the Graphics section of the Openserver Enterprise.

#2) I ran /mnt/INSTALL on the CD, and installed items #4 (development tools)
and #14 (Text processing).   Ghostscript is in #14, but it uses libraries in
#4.   At first, I tried just loading #14 but was missing libraries.   I
suppose one could solve this by installing the entire Skunkware CD - but it
does take 1GB of space.   I believe that I tried this however - and still
had problems.  (I'm not sure of that however).
        Originally I used custom to install everything, but in the end the
/mnt/INSTALL script worked better.  The script if very odd in the way the
menu works, but it does work after you figure it out.

#3)  Ghostscript's command arguments are VERY sensitive to case.
Specifically the -sOutputFlag.  After I went through steps #1 and #2 - gs
seemed to work fine but I wasn't getting any output.  The cause was that I
was using a lower case "F" in the -sOutputFlag argument.  Ghostscript
accepted the argument as valid - but it failed to work until I upshifted the
"F".

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Thanks for the patience of all on this group.

I'm posting this for those in the future who have similar problems with
Ghostscript.

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