Re: SETUP and ghostscript and other problems. . .

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:51:12PM -0600, n0oct@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Hi List,

Hi User ;-)

> I have browsed through the entire help archive, and have yet to run 
> across my problem, so I will pose it to the list.
> 
> Current system:
> 
> FreeBSD 4.4-Release
> apsfilter-6.1.1 [installed from ports]

Just a suggestion, although apsfilter 6.x also was a great release
it would surely be fine for you and us to update to the latest 7.x
release. For you because of more features, for us only having to
support the latest release ;-)

> ghostscript-6.50_6
> ghostscript-gnu-6.51

Thats fine. BTW, for non-commercial use you also could manually
delete and install ghostscript-afpl or ghostscript-afpl-nox11.
If you have the X11 libraries installed there is no problem
to install the gs version including x11 support.

> HP Laserjet 5L
> running on an old P-133 I would like to use as a print server.

Thats pretty fine ...

> Problem #1: The port of apsfilter seems to build ok [I'm building 
> without any X support, as I won't be running X on this machine], but 
> when I run SETUP, it tells me that I must upgrade to at leas gs 
> 5.50!

I'm nor sure, but if I remember right we had a version recognition
problem in older apsfilter releases. A workaround would be, to 
simply remove the checking code in SETUP.

If you upgrade to 7.1.1 this error will go away.

> Problem #2: Knowing that I'm way ahead of that, I continue with 
> SETUP, and it lists a bunch of drivers I might use [from what I've 
> read, ljet4 is probably a good choice for this printer].  When I type 
> in 111 [the number of the ljet4 driver], the program tells me that 
> that particular driver hasn't been compiled into the version of gs that 
> is on my system.  Really?

Well, what does gs -h tell you ??? Is ljet4 really included ???
If this should be another SETUP bug, please use apsfilter 7.1.1
as I told you. If there _should_ be another error, feel free to
report it and we will fix it for you as soon as possible.

But then please include gs -h output to your problem report.

> Problem #3: I manually tweaked SETUP.cfg to contain the driver, 
> paper, resolution, etc., then ran SETUP to try to print the test 
> page.  The error I get is
> --------------------------------------------------
> Creating test page...
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXt.so.6" not found
> time: command terminated abnormally
>         0.02 real         0.00 user         0.01 sys

Well, then you have a gs version installed, that has been
linked with X11 shared libs.

Look here, my gs is also linked with X1 shared libs.

user$ ldd `which gs`
/usr/local/bin/gs:
	libpng.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5 (0x28283000)
	libz.so.2 => /usr/lib/libz.so.2 (0x282a5000)
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x282b2000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x282fc000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x28305000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x2831b000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x28329000)
	libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x28404000)
	libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x28420000)
	libXThrStub.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXThrStub.so.6 (0x284b9000)

I assume, that you havent installed the ghostscript-xxx-nox11 port.
Or maybe during your experiments it got lost or has been replaced
with a port/package that is linked with X11 support ...

> Printing test page...
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  0 Jan  7 22:48 /tmp/aps_testout.tx8J6e
>         0.01 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys
> [ press RETURN to continue ]
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Well, I looked around, and "libXt.so.6" *is* loaded on my machine, 
> as is "libXt.so.6.0".  
> 
> Now, I know apsfilter will work with this printer, and that it will work 

Now you know ? Well don't understand the logic in this sentence.
I thought gs is not finding at least one your X11 shared libs ?
How can apsfilter work if gs is NOT working ? Or did I misunderstand
something ?

> on a slow machine.  I used to have a 75 MHz pentium running 
> FreeBSD 4.0, and apsfilter worked like a charm on it.  Any help?

Well, all your problems will go away by these draconic actions:

a) update FreeBSD ports collection, then you are able to get the
   lastest apsfilter and ghostscript port.

b) Deinstall old ghostscript port entirely

     root# cd /var/db/pkg
     root# pkg_delete ghostscript-*
   or using -f to force
     root# pkg_delete -f ghostscript-*

c) Determnine, which gs version you want to use
   Are you using ghostscript for non-commercial use ?
     Y: use version 7.x
     N: use version 6.5x
   Have you XFree86 or XFree86-4 installed so that you can
   use the gs port with X11 ?
     Y: Then use ghostscript-(gnu|afpl)
     N: Then use ghostscript-(gnu|afpl)-nox11


d) install ghostscript port first

	cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-afpl-nox11
	make install clean
	cd /usr/ports/print/apsfilter
	make install clean

Good luck

	Andreas ///

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