Re: gsview ghostscript and FC5

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:58:27 +0000, Duane Evenson wrote:

I'm runnign a FC5 installation with ghostscript-8.15.1-7.2 and gsview-4.7-6.fc5
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I keep getting the following error message:
Failed to load libgs.so.7: libgs.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Can't load Ghostscript DLL

This ghostscript version provides libgs.so.8.
Does anyone else have this problem?
How can I fix it?

Duane

Not sure what wants libgs.so.7 if you have libgs.so.8 on your box
but I've had success in the past with issues like this by making
a symbolic link for the older, missing lib to the newer, existing one.

So... say that libgs.so.8 is in /usr/lib ( rpm -ql ghostscript or maybe
locate libgs.so.8 will show you the location ) you can do a
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libgs.so.8 libgs.so.7
so that the application that wants libgs.so.7 will get the newer one.
Depending on how much has changed between the old and new version.. it
may or may not work.

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