Problem Gsview and Ghostscript
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Aug 21 19:28:54 UTC 2007
GianPiero Puccioni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a weird incompatibility with Gsview and Ghostscript
> I have installed GhostScript from the Fedora DVD and GsView from
> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview (it says built under FC3),
> versions are:
> ghostscript-8.15.4-3.fc7
> gsview-4.8-1
>
> What happens is that when I try to open a file it prints:
> Wrong version of DLL found.
> Found version 81504
> Need version 704 - 999
>
> it seems that GS has changed the way it numbers revisions of the libgs.so
> library: 81504 instead of 815 and GSV doesn't like it. Is there a
> workaround for this? How do you change that number?
>
> I'd like to have GSV working as it is really handy to make conversions
> from ps and PDF to various other formats.
>
> Any advice?
gsview needs patching to mesh with ghostscript > 8 notion of versioning.
The gsview rpm distributed from rpm.livna.org is patched thusly.
-- Rex
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