[arch-general] cups 1.5.3-3 requires gs

rara8avis at aol.com rara8avis at aol.com
Tue May 29 15:05:28 EDT 2012


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500
> rara8avis at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3
> > requires ghostscript to be installed.  This is a change for some of us who
> > had not otherwise needed ghostscript.  FYI
> > 
> > 	T.
> > 
> 
> cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did).
> 
This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about.  When I tried
to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called
gs but I had no ghostscript installed.  After installed gs, I print easily.
So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups.

	T.



More information about the arch-general mailing list