Hi Ervin -- You said: > I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00 > in the standard distributions. ... > I have solved the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and > compiling it with no gcc optimizations. However, I have to install > it in /usr/local/ because I didn't have a functioning debianized version. > This means I either have to keep a broken gs 3.x or working gs 2.x > installed in /usr/bin or I have to deal with dependency problems because > dpkg doesn't know I have gs installed in /usr/local. >
I think dpkg has a mechanism for getting around this, but I've never tried it, so beware of the following advice. The program I think you need is called dpkg-divert. Documentation is provided by invoking it with the --help option, and also in the file /usr/doc/dpkg/programmer.html/ch-diversions.html (I'm referring to dpkg version 1.3.5). The 1.2 versions of dpkg had a file called /usr/doc/dpkg/diversions.text. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann
