Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:49:15 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade ghostscript? How? Message-ID: <5963FD62-DB7C-4109-BE87-54780FB7D0EF@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <87y7t6kly7.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> References: <87y7t6kly7.fsf@photon.homelinux.org>
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On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote:
> Hi, I wanna upgrade ghostscript to ghostscript-gpl-8.15 from
> ghostscript-gnu-7.07. I've installed the gpl version via port. But
> when I tried to pkg_delete the gnu version, it said
>
> pkg_delete: package 'ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15' is required by these
> other packages
> and may not be deinstalled:
> ImageMagick-6.2.8.5
> auctex-11.83
> cm-super-0.3.3
> dvipdfmx-20050831_2
> dvipsk-tetex-5.95a_1
> freetype-tools-1.3.1_3
> ghostscript-gnu-commfont-7.07_3
> gv-3.6.1
> hplip-0.9.11
> html2ps-letter-1.0.b4_1,1
> teTeX-3.0_1
> teTeX-base-3.0_9
> transfig-3.2.4_1
> xdvik-tetex-22.84.10
> zh-CJK-4.6.0_1
> zh-moefonts-cid-1.0_3
>
> I'll probably also delete ghostscript-gnu-commfont-7.07_3 and
> zh-moefonts-cid-1.0_3. But is there anything more I should consider
> harmful to my system when I switch ghostscript gnu to gpl? Or simply
> pkg_delete by --force is enough?
>
> Thank you,
> Xiao-Yong
Try pkg_delete -f {name of all ghostscript files here}. Then install
the newest port version and be sure to run pkgdb -F afterwards so you
can fix the package database, such that it references the right
ghostscript.
-Garrett
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