From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 03:46:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA00467 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 03:46:51 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA00167 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 03:42:06 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HTLIZQE48G005SBW@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Wed, 02 Aug 1995 12:29:07 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id MAA13768; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:43:18 +0200 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 12:43:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: Any one got ghostview work? In-reply-to: <"7195 Thu Jul 27 15:43:50 1995"@bnr.ca> from "bo" at Jul 27, 95 03:42:00 pm To: xiao@bnr.ca (bo) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199508021043.MAA13768@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 949 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi, > > I have tried both the package and the port of ghostview, no luck. > Compile of ghostscript and ghostview reports no error. Firing up > is fine but gv does not response to my clicks. Giving the ps file > in command line yields: > > Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps. > Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window. > > Alone the same line, xdvi crashes my X server. :( > > Anybody has a clue? Thanks. Did you cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript; make ; make install? And the same for ghostview? It looks like ghostscript isn't properly installed. There should be a /usr/local/lib/ghostscript where among other stuff the said file gs_init.ps should be located. > > Bo > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jul 18 14:49:19 MET DST 1995 kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de: /usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386