Re: Help needed with installation, fedora core 4

[dax2]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:14:03 -0700
David wrote:

>  > sudo rpm -i ghostscript-libs-7.07-41.i386.rpm
>        file /usr/lib/libgs.so.7.07 from install of 
> ghostscript-libs-7.07-41 conflicts with file from package 
> ghostscript-7.07-40
>        file /usr/lib/libijs.so from install of ghostscript-libs-7.07-41 
> conflicts with file from package ghostscript-7.07-40

The last command complain that you already have libgs and libijs.
You could use the upgrade option for RPM: (but this may not
resolve the Ghostscript version-problem)

However:

  If you want to install something which is already present
then you must remove the installed package first. That would
be extremely difficult in most cases, so therefore you would
prefer

  rpm -Uhv package-name-i386.rpm

  This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to a
newer version. This is the same as install, except all other
version(s) of the package are removed after the new package is
installed. Using "long options" would make the command look
like this:

  rpm --upgrade --hash --verbose <pkg>

which means exactly the same as rpm -Uhv.

  I have at present two versions of ghostscript in order to run
lilypond and groff with man-page macros.

  One gs is /usr/local/bin/gs which is 8.50, the other is 
/usr/bin/gs which is version 8.15

  I need /usr/bin in order to display or print output from e.g.
man -t groff_char > groff_char.ps; gv groff_char.ps

  And I must stress that it is not the gv command which changes
but the libraries which it uses.

  I am sure there has been said something about ghostscript on
this mail-list before. However I cannot remember exactly why
the "stable" version of RedHat and Fedora and others is 7 and
why 8.15 and 8.50++ behaves so different (and non-compatible).



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