Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
What does this
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
mean ?
Some sort of parsing error. At that line in the code, the program
expects that the line contains exactly an absolute path to the target
program.
e.g.
line = parseLine(&bufp);
while (line && *line) {
set->alts = realloc(set->alts, (set->numAlts + 1) *
sizeof(*set->alts));
if (*line != '/') {
PARANOID_FREE(buf);
fprintf(stderr, _("path to alternate expected in %s\n"), path);
return 1;\
}
...
So, line does not start with '/'. So, it's either somehow in the wrong
state when parsing that particular line, or the line has a relative path
or something. What you did not post, was your actual, problematic
/var/lib/alternatives/gs file...
FWIW, I can't reproduce this. I even tried mounting
/var/lib/alternatives in text mode to see if that was the problem. It
wasn't.
Here is what gs SHOULD look like, if you have both ghostscript and
ghostscript-x11 installed:
------ snip -------
auto
/usr/bin/gs
/usr/bin/gs-native
10
/usr/bin/gs-x11
20
------ snip ------
--
Chuck
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