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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:58:15 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Jerry Lei <tylei@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: about Ghostscript
Message-ID:  <20000209105815.B29853@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000208182649.46605.qmail@hotmail.com>
References:  <20000208182649.46605.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Tue 2000-02-08 (10:26), Jerry Lei wrote:
> Hi, I got a problem to add package of ghostscript. When I try to
> pkg_add ghostscript-5.50.tgz ghostview-1.5.tgz
> 
> I got the error message:
> I can't find ghostscript in your search path. Please install your favorite 
> version of ghostscripts, otherwise this program is useless.
> 
> after I try to use ghostview by key in:
> ghostview &
> 
> I got the response like below
> [1]426
> ghostview: cannot open DISPLAY
> [1]  Exit 1     ghostview
> 
> What's up with my ghostscript?
> Thanks for any suggestion.

The "cannot open DISPLAY" means you're not in X.  Being in X may
help somewhat.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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