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?
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