
If nothing else, there may have been an error occur, which leads to a failed compiling and wastes your time. It's always a good idea to check the validity of anything like this that you download. The other part, gz, xz, or bz2 means the file was then compressed to shrink its size. The tar part means that the file was tarred, in which a number of files are collected together into one file. What you see there are 3 choices, ending with. Where you can find links to whichever version you want to build.

Ok, so let's imagine you want your own custom-built Ghostscript, or you're using some flavor of Linux that you're experimenting with that doesn't have repositories.
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If you don't know how to work with your repositories, you might as well forget about Ghostscript, since you have or are going to have far more important issues than that.Ī particular advantage of the repository method is that once you install it, it will keep itself up to date.īuilding Ghostscript from source on Linux/UNIX Download the latest tarball Most of the "mainstream" Linux distros will have Ghostscript in their repositories, so if you don't have it, simply search for it. Installing Ghostscript as a binary on Linux/UNIX As far as we know, you cannot go wrong by potentially having some "too far advanced" version of Ghostscript. You should find anything since 8.60 to be serviceable, but as of this writing the current version is 8.71. Generally speaking, you want to have the latest ghostscript you can find. Recommended/required Ghostscript versions 6 Installing Ghostscript on OS/2 and eComStation.

3 Building Ghostscript from source on Linux/UNIX.2 Installing Ghostscript as a binary on Linux/UNIX.1 Recommended/required Ghostscript versions.
