Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:30:04 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Stailey <kstailey@speakeasy.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/46435: Update port: print/ghostscript-afpl to 8.00 (fix ports/46146) Message-ID: <200301080430.h084U4kd071536@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/46435; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ken Stailey <kstailey@speakeasy.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, tkato@prontomail.com Cc: Subject: Re: ports/46435: Update port: print/ghostscript-afpl to 8.00 (fix ports/46146) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:20:13 -0500 WHAT IS THE UPGRADE PATH FOR MY PRINTER DRIVER??? I have the Epson C40UX working, but it apears that http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46435 got committed and it broke. Now I'm scrambling to make my printer work again. What I had was the gs binary with the stp driver. I could see my printer by name: $ pkg_info |grep ghosts ghostscript-afpl-7.04_7 AFPL Postscript interpreter version 7 $ strings gs | grep -i C40UX escp2-c40ux EPSON Stylus C40UX The new gs binary does not have those strings. Seems I need gimp print but I really still need stp too. Now I see this mess: # pwd /usr/ports/print/gimp-print/work/gimp-print-4.2.4/src/ghost # head -30 README.bsd stp printing with FreeBSD ========================= by Philipp Huber <uebs@gmx.at> (C) 2000 The Ghostcsript6 Port of FreeBSD does not include the stp driver, therefore it's necesseray to do some changes by hand :) First of all, the Ghostscript6 Ports has to be downloaded, extracted and patching must be done. cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6 make patch After this, download print-4.0b2 (or another version, i did it with this one) from http://download.sourceforge.net/gimp-print/print-4.0b2.tar.gz Place the file into the workdir of the ghostscript6 port and unzip it: cp print-4.0b2.tar.gz /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6/work/gs6.01 cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6/work/gs6.01 tar xzf print-4.0b2.tar.gz Follow the directions as described in "Ghost/README": First, copy all *.c and *.h files into the ghostscript src directory. cd print-4.0b2/Ghost cp *.c ../../src/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHY IS THE STP DRIVER NOT IN THE PORTS TREE BY DEFAULT??? WHY IS THERE NO OPTION TO USE THE STP DRIVER IF IT IS STILL A REQUIREMENT FOR MANY PRINTERS??? DO I REALLY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS BS EVERY TIME PORTUPGRADE SPITS OUT NEW A VERION OF GHOSTSCRIPT? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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