How to Install GhostScript 9.27 on Ubuntu 19.04
Installation of GhostScript 9.2.7
GhostScript is an interpreter for PostScript And Portable Document Format. Its main goal is to rasterize or render page description language files that display or prints the document pages and the conversation between postscript and PDF files. This video covers the method to install the GhostScript 9.27 version on ubuntu 19.04.
Download Link :
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/archive/9.27.zip
Installation procedure:
Update the apt repositories to bring up-to-date installed packages
root@linuxhelp:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/java/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease [97.5 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease [97.5 kB]
Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-backports InRelease [88.8 kB]
Fetched 284 kB in 3s (101 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
168 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Download the GhostScript 9.27 version using wget as follows.
root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/archive/9.27.zip
--2019-06-22 14:24:14-- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/archive/9.27.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.176.102
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.176.102|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/zip/9.27 [following]
--2019-06-22 14:24:14-- https://codeload.github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/zip/9.27
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.120
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.120|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘9.27.zip’
9.27.zip [ <=> ] 496 --.-KB/s in 0.001s
2019-06-22 14:24:16 (805 KB/s) - ‘9.27.zip’ saved [496]
View the Downloaded zip file of by listing the contents.
root@linuxhelp:~# ll
total 133200
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jun 22 14:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Apr 26 14:11 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496 Jun 22 14:24 9.27.zip
-rw------- 1 root root 969 Jun 6 10:17 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3106 Aug 7 2018 .bashrc
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 00:34 .cache/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80851974 Apr 25 21:51 franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb
-rw------- 1 root root 62 May 16 16:44 .mysql_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 May 16 16:32 .pearrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148 Aug 7 2018 .profile
-rw------- 1 root root 1068 Jun 6 10:29 .viminfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 55491492 Sep 4 2018 VMwareTools-10.3.2-9925305.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 4 2018 vmware-tools-distrib/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209 Jun 22 14:24 .wget-hsts
Extract the zip files of Ghostscript as follows.
root@linuxhelp:~# unzip 9.27.zip
Archive: 9.27.zip
799cf865a224b60a7de50d2909abf7f66e9e34e3
creating: ghostpdl-downloads-9.27/
inflating: ghostpdl-downloads-9.27/README.md
Check the version of GhostScript 9.27
root@linuxhelp:~# GhostScript -version
GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
With this, the Installation of GhostScript 9.27 version On Ubuntu 19.04 Comes to an end.
nicolasdiot
Aug 11 2020
Why the final version at the end of the tutorial is 9.26 while the version we are looking to install is 9.27 ?
Q
Can GhostScript render at higher resolutions?
A
Yes, GhostScript's can render at higher resolutions.
Q
Are there options to control the quality of the output given in GhostScript?
A
Yes, It is possible to control the quality of the output given in GhostScript.
Q
What is Raster Image Processor Mean in GhostScript?
A
Raster Image Processor is a component used in the printing system which produces a raster image also known as a bitmap in GhostScript.
Q
Can GhostScript be used as a Raster Image Processor?
A
Yes, GhostScript can be used as a Raster Image Processor.
Q
What is GhostScript?
A
GhostScript is an interpreter for PostScript and PDF files.