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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:56:51 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Glenn McCalley <techlist@bnetmd.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ghostscript install
Message-ID:  <20020131195651.GA848@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <030501c1aaa5$3f481960$6501a8c0@bnetmd.net>
References:  <030501c1aaa5$3f481960$6501a8c0@bnetmd.net>

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:18:11PM -0800, Glenn McCalley wrote:
> Hi there,
> Installing ghostscript, all looks well, but upon running it the following
> comes up:
> 
> $gs
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXt.so.6" not found
> 
> What's that?  Part of X?  If so , X is not installed.

Yes, that is an X library. Ghostscript is by default linked against X.

> To back up, all I'm really trying to do is convert postscript files to pdf
> for a web site.  I don't have to look at them, just convert about 12,000
> files.  Ghostscript looks like the method but if there's a simpler way I'm
> for it.

Install ghostscript-gnu-nox11 instead. (Or ghostscript-afpl-nox11 if
you prefer that.)  That is ghostscript built without X support.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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