Mandriva 2006: Ghostscript error, can't read PDFs

[GekkoGeck0]

I've been having errors with KGhostView. It was telling me that it couldn't open PDF files. It was working not that long ago, but maybe about a week ago, it just started telling me it couldn't open anything.

 

I narrowed the problem down to Ghostscript itself.

 

GS version: ESP Ghostscript 815.01 (2005-09-22)

 

Here's the error:

 

Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get

Operand stack:

Actionsh.pfb 0

 

I really prefer to use KGhostView to read my PDF files. XPDF has given me nothing but problems and PDFs aren't readable in it for some reason that I don't care to fix because I never liked the program in the first place.

 

Anyone know what's causing this error and how I should go about correcting this so I can read my PDFs again?

[ianw1974]

I would suggest removing and reinstalling again to see if that solves the problem.

[GekkoGeck0]

If I make an attempt at removing GhostScript, this is what I get:

 

Because of their dependencies, the following package(s) also need to be

removed:

 

a2ps-4.13b-8mdk, cups-drivers-2006-7.1.20060mdk, foomatic-db-3.0.2-1.20050825.2mdk,

ghostscript-module-X-8.15-24.3.20060mdk, gutenprint-foomatic-5.0.0-0.9mdk,

gutenprint-ijs-5.0.0-0.9mdk, ImageMagick-6.2.4.3-1.1.20060mdk,

kdeaddons-3.5.1-1.1.20060.SoS, kdegraphics-3.5.1-0.1.20060.SoS,

kdegraphics-kdvi-3.5.1-0.1.20060.SoS, kdegraphics-kghostview-3.5.1-0.1.20060.SoS,

kipi-plugins-0.1.0-0.rc1.2.1.20060mdk, OpenOffice.org-1.1.5-2.2.20060mdk,

OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.1.5-2mdk, OpenOffice.org-l10n-en-1.1.5-2.2.20060mdk,

postscript-ppds-2006-1mdk, printer-filters-2006-7.1.20060mdk,

sam2p-0.44-1mdk, tetex-3.0-12.1.20060mdk

 

I'm not removing all that to get rid of GhostScript... Is there another way of going about this?

[daniewicz]

I agree that you should not remove all of those packages just to remove ghostscript.

 

Sigh...dependency hell.

 

I use the Adobe Reader 7 to read pdf's. It works fine:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

[ianw1974]

I guess you could try forcing it to reinstall over the top even though it's already installed. I think a --force might do it, so for example:

 

urpmi ghostscript --force

 

although I'm not sure on the parameter, so try "man urpmi" to find out additional parameters to override and force the install.

[coverup]

rpm or its KDE frontend kpackage should allow you to deal with dependencies:

rpm -e --nodeps PACKAGENAME

[GekkoGeck0]

Thanks, that fixed it!