From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 0:59:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839F94251 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:59:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12ISwx-0007q9-00; Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:58:15 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:58:15 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Jerry Lei Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about Ghostscript Message-ID: <20000209105815.B29853@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000208182649.46605.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000208182649.46605.qmail@hotmail.com> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2000-02-08 (10:26), Jerry Lei wrote: > Hi, I got a problem to add package of ghostscript. When I try to > pkg_add ghostscript-5.50.tgz ghostview-1.5.tgz > > I got the error message: > I can't find ghostscript in your search path. Please install your favorite > version of ghostscripts, otherwise this program is useless. > > after I try to use ghostview by key in: > ghostview & > > I got the response like below > [1]426 > ghostview: cannot open DISPLAY > [1] Exit 1 ghostview > > What's up with my ghostscript? > Thanks for any suggestion. The "cannot open DISPLAY" means you're not in X. Being in X may help somewhat. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message