Hello Trent and Jason, On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 12:29 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Jason White wrote:
Mark Trickett <marktrickett@bigpond.com> wrote:
I have been used to invoking Ghostscript to display my postscript efforts on this Thinkpad running Ubuntu, but it did not do so with the "fresh" desktop install of Debian. I have looked at the default output device on this Thinkpad, and it is x11alpha, but that appears to not be available with the Debian installed version of Ghostscript.
Is the ghostscript-x package installed?
I still need to set up net access, it was only the defaults from the DVD that were installed at this point. That is why I made comments about setting up dial up and ppp via pon and poff. I repeat that other meat space commitments are keeping me from an adequate examination of getting that right. I need to refresh my shell scripting, and to learn sed and the like.
As the more general heuristic, what I would be doing in such a scenario is looking at aptitude search ?source-package(foo) when foo isn't working, and looking at unmet Recommends dependencies of installed packages.
$ aptitude search '?source-package(ghostscript)' i A ghostscript - interpreter for the PostScript language an p ghostscript-cups - interpreter for the PostScript language an p ghostscript-dbg - interpreter for the PostScript language an p ghostscript-doc - interpreter for the PostScript language an p ghostscript-x - interpreter for the PostScript language an p libgs-dev - interpreter for the PostScript language an i A libgs9 - interpreter for the PostScript language an i A libgs9-common - interpreter for the PostScript language an
That too is interesting, while I was scratching around, some of the documentation files were mentioned, but not present. One trouble is that unless I use the commands and options reasonably regularly, I will forget them. I know quite a lot of looking things up, but sometimes I still need prompting, including the appropriate technical terms. Regards, Mark Trickett