From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 21:35:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A37916A4E0 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:35:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay2.av-mx.com (relay2.av-mx.com [137.118.16.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F9A43D72 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:35:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.55] (HELO mx3.av-mx.com) by relay2.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 376832004 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:35:48 -0400 Received: (qmail 29830 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2006 21:35:47 -0000 Received: from dsl25232.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.113.232) by mx3.av-mx.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 2006 21:35:47 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.113.232 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl25232.ywave.com Message-ID: <44F604B1.8010409@ywave.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:35:45 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060730) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: <87y7t6kly7.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <5963FD62-DB7C-4109-BE87-54780FB7D0EF@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <5963FD62-DB7C-4109-BE87-54780FB7D0EF@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xj2106@columbia.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade ghostscript? How? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:35:59 -0000 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > >> Hi, I wanna upgrade ghostscript to ghostscript-gpl-8.15 from >> ghostscript-gnu-7.07. I've installed the gpl version via port. But >> when I tried to pkg_delete the gnu version, it said >> >> pkg_delete: package 'ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15' is required by these >> other packages >> and may not be deinstalled: >> ImageMagick-6.2.8.5 >> auctex-11.83 >> cm-super-0.3.3 >> dvipdfmx-20050831_2 >> dvipsk-tetex-5.95a_1 >> freetype-tools-1.3.1_3 >> ghostscript-gnu-commfont-7.07_3 >> gv-3.6.1 >> hplip-0.9.11 >> html2ps-letter-1.0.b4_1,1 >> teTeX-3.0_1 >> teTeX-base-3.0_9 >> transfig-3.2.4_1 >> xdvik-tetex-22.84.10 >> zh-CJK-4.6.0_1 >> zh-moefonts-cid-1.0_3 >> >> I'll probably also delete ghostscript-gnu-commfont-7.07_3 and >> zh-moefonts-cid-1.0_3. But is there anything more I should consider >> harmful to my system when I switch ghostscript gnu to gpl? Or simply >> pkg_delete by --force is enough? >> >> Thank you, >> Xiao-Yong > > Try pkg_delete -f {name of all ghostscript files here}. Then install the > newest port version and be sure to run pkgdb -F afterwards so you can > fix the package database, such that it references the right ghostscript. > -Garrett Additionally I had to set GHOSTSCRIPT_PORT=print/ghostscript-gpl /etc/make.conf in order to get newly installed/upgraded ports to depend on gs-gpl instead of gs-gnu. I was never able to get gs-afpl to work properly. HTH, Micah