Re: Installing packages

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 8 Jul 1997 11:54:33 +0100 (BST)


On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Simon Lea wrote:

> I need to print a postscript file on a network printer (the printer is
> setup and works fine with text).
>
> I understand that I need ghostscript.
>

Yep, not kernel related tho ...

> I have downloaded the file and tried to use the pkgtool
>
> I selected the option to install the ghostscript.tgz package and got no
> error messages.
>
> looking in var/adm/packages the file for ghostscript contains no
> information under the installed files section.
>

Hmm

> and you guessed it, it dont work.
>
> I cannot tar -xzvf [filename].tgz the file
> I cannot gunzip the file
>

If gzip won't touch it, it's crupt go get it again.

> I'm stuck !!
>
> Si
>
Bryn

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