On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so > long...
Yes this is a shame. I guess the switch had to be made sometime, but I can't help feeling that it wouldn't have hurt to put it off a bit more. > I just got an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer to try out, and > I could managed much resolution out of Debian 1.3's installed > ghostscript. I have the new Stylus Color 600. I havn't been able to make it work at all with the GS 4 stcolor driver. The printer light just flickers forever and /var/log/messages fills up with 'resetting lp1' type messages. I have tried a large number of things to make it work, but I have of course missed the one that works (if there is one). The old st800 driver from gs 3 works, but it's not pretty. > $ gs -h > Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995) > > Now, the latest and greatest from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ > is Aladdin Ghostscript 5.03, so the installed version is very old. > > Okay, so I notice that `non-free' has gs-aladdin 4.03-7. > > gs-aladdin 5.03-1 is available in unstable, but lists *no* related > packages on the web page (This is a bug!). > > I downloaded it to find it needs: > > libc6, libjpegg6a, libpaperg (>= 1.0.3-4), libpng0g, svgalibg1, > xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), zlib1g > > So it's based on libc6... > > I presume I'm not the first to need Aladdin Ghostscript 5.03 to drive > a recent printer. Should I just get the sources and install them > over Debian's installed files? Do I need anything else? Will I screw > up my Debian 1.3 system if I do so? You may be close to the first. I have asked questions in a number of places and only turned up one other person with one of this latest generation from Epson. At least I think he had one of the latest, but the fact that he said he had it working makes me wonder. Mayby he was using GS 5. > I'm seeking advice here. Any pointers appreciated. Has anyone setup > a Stylus 800 with gs-aladdin 4.03-7? What's the max you can do? > How do you do it, since magicfilter is also too old to know about this > printer? A knowledgable person (Anthony Fok) sent me his config file that he uses for his Epson 500. I doesn't work for me, but I could send it to you, and you could let me know if you figure out what needs toe changed. > (I'm sure this happens a lot with users stuck on libc5, seeing their system > get more and more dated. I like the `Debian' way better than the > do-it-all-yourself way of Slackware, except when you *have* to do it > yourself on Debian. Then it seems that the dependencies hinder you because > you have to do something behind the system's back, which requires greater > knowledge of how the system keep track of its dependencies) I think if you install everything in /usr/local you will be ok. I have pretty much mirrored the directory structure of /usr in /usr/local, and I havn't run into anything too terribly determined to be installed somewhere else. Good luck! > -- > Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada > P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Britton Kerin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
