scribus, ghostscript and espgs

[Dennis Veatch]

On Friday 15 July 2005 03:35 pm, Florin Braescu wrote:
> Pe data de Vin 15 Iul 2005 21:50, Dennis Veatch a scris:
> > 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?
> > _______________________________________________
>
>   Well, there is a known problem with freetype > 2.1.7 and firefox, mozila.
> Both are not working with versions like that. Better check that out with
> the 2.1.10 version of freetype. I use this version on my system since it's
> launch, but i do not have firefox nor mozilla installed :)
>
>   Florin

I understand your point. Though at this point I was only concerned about the 
conflicts (or not). Same here about the browsers.

I see in the espgs POST_INSTALL it does a ln -sf /usr/bin/gsc /usr/bin/gs. I 
have found some old google hits about the conflicts but nothing recent as 
yet.