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ghostscript package

  1. Bug #138986
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 138986

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Flabdablet (flabdablet) wrote :

OK, it's not hpijs, it's ghostscript. This rather horrid workaround has Mum printing again:

cd /tmp
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gs-esp/libgs-esp8_8.15.4.dfsg.1-0ubuntu1_powerpc.deb
dpkg -i libgs-esp8_8.15.4.dfsg.1-0ubuntu1_powerpc.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gs-esp/gs-esp_8.15.4.dfsg.1-0ubuntu1_powerpc.deb
dpkg -x gs-esp_8.15.4.dfsg.1-0ubuntu1_powerpc.deb foo
sudo cp -r foo/usr/share/gs-esp /usr/share
sudo mv /usr/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs.broken
sudo cp /tmp/foo/usr/bin/gs-esp /usr/bin/gs

This replaces the Gutsy gs with the same version that was in Feisty, while leaving the package management system none the wiser. Hopefully the next ghostscript upgrade will fix gs rather than breaking it again.

To get printing back to where it was in Feisty (i.e. working), I also had to work around another bug in a similarly rude way:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/145278

Hope this helps.