Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 14.10, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > > (although I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't ship the latest GS). > > Ubuntu is a snapshot of debian/unstable with extra user-experience > polish. Only since July 15th, 8.15 is in debian (fixing a whishlist >

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > (although I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't ship the latest GS). Ubuntu is a snapshot of debian/unstable with extra user-experience polish. Only since July 15th, 8.15 is in debian (fixing a whishlist bug from a lilypond user :-) Maybe we could check a specific gs fe

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > I guess we should check for GS 8.x and not GS 8.15 specifically > (although I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't ship the latest GS). The last time I checked, debian's gs-8.01 and gs-8.14 did not work. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Guy Banay wrote: I didn't know that, but maybe I should've guessed. Anyway, GS-ESP-8.01 (the one that's installed by default on Ubuntu 5.04) generates readable pdf without complaining. I guess we should check for GS 8.x and not GS 8.15 specifically (although I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-01 Thread Guy Banay
> You could always, of course, first extract the autopackage and install > the contained ghostscript package manually. Sure, if you could install to /usr/local and have it Just Work (TM) that'd be very nice. But I already tried that before sending my first message and it doesn't work - if autopack

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 28 July 2005 11.38, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Erik Sandberg writes: > > I have the same problem (I reported it earlier), with the full package. I > > get the following message when installing: > > > > # Checking for Ghostscript ... failed > > # FAILED: > > # Package 'Ghostscript' was f

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Scott
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Erik Sandberg writes: I have the same problem (I reported it earlier), with the full package. I get the following message when installing: # Checking for Ghostscript ... failed # FAILED: # Package 'Ghostscript' was found but was of the wrong version and the correc

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-07-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Erik Sandberg writes: > I have the same problem (I reported it earlier), with the full package. I get > the following message when installing: > > # Checking for Ghostscript ... failed > # FAILED: > # Package 'Ghostscript' was found but was of the wrong version and the correct > version could not

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 28 July 2005 08.37, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Guy Banay writes: > > The Lilypond autopackage (version 2.6.1) will not install on systems > > without Ghostscript >= 8.15 despite GS being an optional runtime > > dependancy and lilypond can run without it. > > What does `will not install'

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-07-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Guy Banay writes: > The Lilypond autopackage (version 2.6.1) will not install on systems > without Ghostscript >= 8.15 despite GS being an optional runtime > dependancy and lilypond can run without it. What does `will not install' mean? Did you try the full package? > It would be more appropria

ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-07-27 Thread Guy Banay
The Lilypond autopackage (version 2.6.1) will not install on systems without Ghostscript >= 8.15 despite GS being an optional runtime dependancy and lilypond can run without it. It would be more appropriate imho to issue a warning but let the installation complete, especially considering that even