scribus, ghostscript and espgs

[Auke Kok]

Dennis Veatch wrote:
> Fiddling around with scribus version 1.3.0. It warns to use freetype2-2.1.10 
> anything lesser don't bother to submit a bug report. No big deal. I installed 
> what it wanted. Nothing blew up so far with the lastest freetype2. 
> 
> Well then the configure phase complained about no ghostscript. Well I had 
> espgs installed which moonbase says conflicts. So I installed 
> ghostscript-8.16. So then scribus asks if I want espgs to make use of eps 
> images. 
> 
> Well theres the rub and at this point is there still a conflict between 
> ghostscript and espgs? Apparently scribus does not think there is else why 
> would it ask that both be installed?

ghostscript and espgs still conflict: they both install /usr/bin/gs and 
derivatives. Since they offer duplicate functionality you can also use 
espgs instead of ghostscript with scribus, there should be no problem 
exchanging them except for the cups module (And I doubt even that will 
be a real problem... but that's not recommended).

sofar