Re: SETUP and ghostscript and other problems. . .

[n0oct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 9 Jan 2002, at 13:58, Andreas Klemm wrote:

> 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.
> 

I will check into both the newer release of apsfilter, and the no-X 
version of gs, as I don't have X11 installed on this machine.

> > 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 ?

Sorry, English idiom.  I know that *a* version of apsfilter worked 
with this printer *once upon a time*, with another computer and a 
different version of FreeBSD.  So, I know that it *is* possible that 
apsfilter will again work, so I'm not giving up hope. %^)


> 
> > 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 ///
 
Thanks, will do, and will report back, although it won't be right away-
-too many things to do right now!




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73, Jim NOOCT
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