How to Install Ghostscript on Linuxmint 19

Installation of Ghostscript on Linuxmint 19

Ghostscript can be used as a raster image processor (RIP) for raster computer printers—for instance, as an input filter of line printer daemon—or as the RIP engine behind PostScript and PDF viewers. Ghostscript can also be used as a file format converter, such as PostScript to PDF converter.This tutorial covers the install of Ghostscript on Linuxmint 19

Installation procedure

Check the Linuxmint version by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
Description:	Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release:	19
Codename:	tara

Before installing Ghostscript, update the apt source.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara InRelease                                            
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]                    
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]       
Get:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara Release [24.1 kB]                                     
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]                              
Get:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara Release.gpg [819 B]                                   
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages [327 kB]                       
Get:10 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara/upstream amd64 Packages [32.2 kB]                 
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages [429 kB]        
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Fetched 6,209 kB in 14s (434 kB/s)                                                                                        
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
635 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Install the Ghostscript by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install ghostscript
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  ghostscript-x libgs9 libgs9-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ghostscript ghostscript-x libgs9 libgs9-common
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 631 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,450 kB of archives.
After this operation, 121 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 ghostscript-x amd64 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9 [43.0 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 ghostscript amd64 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9 [51.3 kB]
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Unpacking libgs9-common (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9) over (9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libgs9-common (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Setting up libgs9:amd64 (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9) ...
Setting up ghostscript (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9) ...
Setting up ghostscript-x (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

Check the version of Ghostscript, use the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# ghostscript -v
GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.

With this the installation of Ghostscript on Linuxmint 19 comes to end.