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I have just built an installed enscript {1-6-6} from the tarball. When I try to run it I get:

enscript-1.6.6$ bin/enscript -v -Eperl --output=doprint.ps ../doprint.pl
AFM: scanning path...
AFM: reading font map "/home/bercos/bin/enscript-1.6.6/share/enscript/afm/font.map"
enscript: couldn't find prolog "enscript.pro": No such file or directory
states: undefined state `lang_enscript'

but when I check:

enscript-1.6.6$ find . -name enscript.pro
./share/enscript/enscript.pro

All I have done on the system [Debian] is take the tarball, make, make check [all tests passed] and then a make install. Is there something more that enscript needs? I added ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY=/home/bercos/bin/enscript-1.6.6/etc to my .profile.

BernieC
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  • I just backed up to 1.6.5 and get the same problem. 1.6.6 dates from 2012[!] and I'd have thought that there would've been another release if it had a problem. 1.6.5 dates from 20100111. I wonder if there's some way to figure out where it is looking for its profile. I've tried -v but that doesn't tell me. – BernieC Sep 22 '18 at 15:02
  • probably incorrect installation path!.Please see below and let me know. If it didn't work we should check the `ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES` were setup correctly! –  Sep 22 '18 at 17:23

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According to enscript man the installation path for enscript should as follows:

FILES
       /usr/share/enscript/*.hdr               header files
       /usr/share/enscript/*.enc               input encoding vectors
       /usr/share/enscript/enscript.pro        PostScript prolog
       /usr/share/enscript/*.afm               AFM files for PostScript fonts
       /usr/share/enscript/font.map            index for the AFM files
       /usr/share/enscript/enscript.st         states definition file
       /usr/etc/enscript.cfg                   system-wide configuration file
       /usr/etc/enscriptsite.cfg               site configuration file
       ~/.enscriptrc                           personal configuration file
       ~/.enscript/                            personal resource directory

The output of the command find in your case was as follows:

enscript-1.6.6$ find . -name enscript.pro
./share/enscript/enscript.pro

The command above indicates that you ran the command find inside the enscript folder. Usually the output should be:

./enscript.pro

I would suggest that you do:

cd /usr/share/enscript

Then run the command 

ll

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4807 Jun  9  2014 885910.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4805 Jun  9  2014 88591.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4804 Jun  9  2014 88592.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4804 Jun  9  2014 88593.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4804 Jun  9  2014 88594.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4804 Jun  9  2014 88595.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4806 Jun  9  2014 88597.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4805 Jun  9  2014 88599.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2407 Jun  9  2014 a2ps.hdr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 24  2017 afm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4816 Jun  9  2014 asciidkno.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4804 Jun  9  2014 ascii.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4816 Jun  9  2014 asciifise.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1947 Jun  9  2014 edd.hdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1868 Jun  9  2014 emacs.hdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3576 Jun  9  2014 enscript-color.hdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2763 Jun  9  2014 enscript.hdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6930 Jun  9  2014 enscript.pro
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  916 Jun  9  2014 frame.hdr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 24  2017 hl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4800 Jun  9  2014 hp8.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4805 Jun  9  2014 ibmpc.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4802 Jun  9  2014 koi8.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4802 Jun  9  2014 mac.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2469 Jun  9  2014 mp.hdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  867 Jun  9  2014 ps.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  856 Jun  9  2014 pslatin1.enc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2310 Jun  9  2014 simple.hdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1325 Jun  9  2014 squeeze.hdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4799 Jun  9  2014 vms.enc

These are enscript files that should be in /usr/share/enscript

  • There's no "/usr/share" -- perhaps there's some problem in the makefile/configure script. I don't have root privileges, so I'm trying to install enscript in my own bin direcctory. What I did with the tarball was `./configure --profile=/home/bercos/bin/enscript-1.1.6`. I get exactly those files when I `ls -l` on /home/bercos/bin/enscript-1.6.6/share/enscript. Perhaps I need some envrionment variable to point something that doesn't get set by ./configure to point to one of my directories? I did add "ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY=/home/bercos/bin/enscript-1.6.6/etc" to my environment... are there others – BernieC Sep 24 '18 at 00:32
  • @BernieC . you have to have root privileges to install it. it has to be installed in the same tree of folders as above let me know ;-) –  Sep 24 '18 at 00:35
  • Ah. So I'm just out of luck with enscript {the sysadmins aren't interested in installing it for me}. Too bad. In the past I've done OK with using --profile= to get a locally installed program, but I guess that doesn't quite work for enscript. Thanks! – BernieC Sep 24 '18 at 00:39