gs5.xx (was bitmap copies of plots)
On 5 Oct 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
rossini@biostat.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini) writes:
>> >
>> > (5.50 is much better than 5.10, and 6.0 is imminent: 5.94 is
>> > in test)
>>
>> ...but 5.10 is the one that still ships with RedHat (newer ones
>> are not GPL yet, I presume). Installed 6.1 yesterday, so I
>> should know.
There are Debian packages... one of the good reasons to use Debian :-). But seriously, alien would import it, or I'm sure someone must have done a contributed rpm for it?
Sure, ----- [pd@blueberry pd]$ rpmfind --latest ghostscript Installing ghostscript will require 4078 KBytes ### To Transfer: ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/mirror/ftp.redhat.com/contrib/hurricane/i386/ghostscript-5.50-3.i386.rpm Do you want to download these files to /tmp [Y/n/a] ? : n
(There are gs5.93 rpms too.)
However, the point was that we need to be a little careful when relying on non-free (or semi-free) items, because they don't travel on CD releases, etc.
Right. I appreciated that. My point is that you may not be able use dev2bitmap as a PDF driver without using GhostScript 6.0 or pre-test, unless you restrict what you plot. GNU-licensed gs6.xx is a year away (it says in the pre-test). So either you accept the shackles or you get inferior plots. Unfortunately Aladdin and FSF seem to be having a spat, which is why 5.94 was put out with support for linking in readline removed.
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