Information about the package, ghostscript, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ghostscript package is designed for, A PostScript interpreter and renderer.
Package Name:
ghostscript
Summary:
A PostScript interpreter and renderer
Description:
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers. If you need to display PostScript files or print them to non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts package.
Architecture:
i686
Version:
8.70
Release:
23.el6_9.2
Size:
4.5 M
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+ and Redistributable, no modification permitted
Control the ghostscript package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ghostscript
This command will install ghostscript on the server.
yum remove ghostscript
This command will un-install ghostscript on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghostscript, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ghostscript
This command will un-install ghostscript on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ghostscript when using the -y flag.
yum update ghostscript
This command will update ghostscript to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghostscript, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ghostscript
This command will update ghostscript to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ghostscript when using the -y flag.
yum info ghostscript
This command will show you core information about the ghostscript package.
yum deplist ghostscript
This command will show you the dependencies for ghostscript. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update ghostscript
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ghostscript. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.