How to install Ghostscript?

Posted on the August 27th, 2008 under Software Install Tips by Stephen

The basic:

Download source at http://www.ghostscript.com/awki/Releases

./configure
make
make install

Done :D

Example: Install Ghostscript 8.63

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs863/ghostscript-8.63.tar.gz
tar zxf ghostscript-8.63.tar.gz
cd ghostscript-8.63
./configure
make
make install

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2 Responses to 'How to install Ghostscript?'

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  1. March 11, 2009 at 8:20 am
    Eddy

    This was very very helpfull, and worked 100%

  2. July 29, 2010 at 6:59 pm
    Steve

    Thanks! It takes longer then I thought :) but this worked for me to

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