Install Ghostscript v 9.05 (or newer) on CentOS

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I need to use the ghostscript inkcov device on my CentOS server. The device is said to be available on GS versions 9.05 and newer. However, yum install ghostscript installs version 8.70.

What is the easiest way to get the inkcov device to work?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '13 at 07:20

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It turned out that you can easily download a binary from the repository, unpack it on the file-system and then just update the PATH variable. After that the application works fine.

answered Jun 19 '13 at 07:20

Dušan Rychnovský

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this was easy, can also just make it executable and refer to it with absolute path – Hayden Thring Sep 05 '17 at 01:41

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 27 '14 at 14:46

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In case anyone else comes across this:

I found this link more helpful. It lists different versions, and then you can download a convenient *.tar.gz to unpack / install.

I did wget on the URL for the link ghostscript-9.10.tar.gz. For some reason it saved to a file called download, but it is a .tar.gz. So I unpacked with tar -zxvf download

cd into the new directory, then it's the classic:

./configure note that you can add --prefix=path to specifiy the installation directory

make

make install

This link from ghostscript's site was very helpful to me for installation

answered Oct 27 '14 at 14:46

Don Cheadle

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*some reason* is because you **are** downloading a file called `download`: have a look at the URL you're `wget`-ing. You can use the `-O` switch to use a different name: `wget -O ghostscript.tar.gz [URL]`. Also note that building from source will require you to install/build all possible dependencies. – John WH Smith Oct 27 '14 at 14:53
thanks for the tip on `wget`. Truly, I didn't understand how to have ghostscript *installed* and working from Op's answer, so I posted this. Trying op's, I unpacked it and was left with a single file, `./configure`` did nothing. From there I wasn't sure what to do with that. – Don Cheadle Oct 27 '14 at 14:58
The OP's answer provides links to binary versions of ghostscript. You don't need to compile them, they already are (unless you choose the *Ghostscript 9.15 Source* version). All you have to do is run `gs-915-linux_x86` (or similar). – John WH Smith Oct 27 '14 at 15:00

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 18 '20 at 16:47

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In CentOS 8 there is an easier way to do this installation:

dnf --enablerepo=PowerTools install ghostscript

edited Nov 18 '20 at 16:47

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answered Nov 18 '20 at 14:20

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 16 '15 at 09:56

I think you can try with this gist, which worked for me: https://gist.github.com/masbog/a84e9122f9bca6b83e47

curl -O http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.14.tar.gz &&
tar -xzf  ghostscript-9.14.tar.gz &&
cd ghostscript-9.14 &&
./configure &&
make install &&
make so &&
cp ghostscript-9.14/sobin/libgs.so.9.14 /usr/lib &&
ln -s /usr/lib/libgs.so.9.14 /usr/lib/libgs.so &&
mkdir -p /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ &&
echo "/usr/lib/libgs.so" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libgs.conf &&
ldconfig &&
echo "Installing ghostscript finish" &&
gs

Install Ghostscript v 9.05 (or newer) on CentOS

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