Re: ghostscript weirdness

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, sven geier wrote:

> Heya all.
>
> I had sent (to the main list) yesterday the following problem
>
> [snipped question about "Unknown device: x11" error from ghostscript]
>
> To this, Igor replied the following:
>
> } First off, questions regarding Cygwin and X11 should go to the
> } cygwin-xfree list.  Please move further discussions onto that list.  I'm
> } directing this reply there as well, and setting Reply-To: appropriately.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sven, my reply (with your message fully quoted) already went to this list
-- there's no need to forward it again.

> } Secondly, this is a common problem.  Simply install the "ghostscript-x11"
> } package.
> }	Igor
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem. As it turns out, I
> already have ghostscript, ghostscript-base and ghostscript-x11 (and gv).
> I even reinstalled ghostscript-x11 but still no luck: gv comes up just
> fine, I can click on the "open" button but when I select a postscript
> file I get the same "Unknown Device: x11" error message. Starting gs by
> hand and entering "Devicenames ==" still yields the same list that does
> indeed not contain the "x11" device.
>
> I'm puzzled...

You also need to make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin/gs gets picked up before
/usr/bin/gs (i.e., that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your PATH before /usr/bin --
which is usually done by default by /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh).
	Igor
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