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64 bit Q4OS 1.48 Firefox and Ghostscript error

I've been ploughing through the heaps of errors that show up in .xsession-errors to try to work out why they are happening.

One rather odd one I came across was after starting Firefox (Q4OS installer) or Iceweasel (Via Synaptic) I see 2 errors:-
/bin/sh: 1: gs: not found
/bin/sh: 1: gs: not found

This only happens on 64 bit Q4OS

The only thing I know of that runs gs is Ghostscript and sure enough installing Ghostscript makes the error go away.

Backchecking shows Ghostscript is installed by default in 32 bit Q4OS so no error.

Dai_trying

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Re: 64 bit Q4OS 1.48 Firefox and Ghostscript error

I noticed that GhostScript is installed on my 64bit system, so it might be something to do with an issue I have reported (and dev team are working on) where a package can be uninstalled from system without instruction, this has happened and been mainly noticed with a missing locales error, but I had firefox removed on one occasion when un-installing a totally non-connected package.

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Re: 64 bit Q4OS 1.48 Firefox and Ghostscript error

Just checked by booting off live media for 1.48 - gs command not found.

Was your version upgraded from a previous release?

Dai_trying

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Re: 64 bit Q4OS 1.48 Firefox and Ghostscript error

I think this one was installed from 1.4.7 and then updated to current, and I have a lot of other packages installed too. Just checked with a minimal installation I am using for web dev stuff and that does not have gs installed but has firefox installed from sw centre, so maybe it's a dependency that is overlooked.

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Re: 64 bit Q4OS 1.48 Firefox and Ghostscript error

Firefox in SW Centre is being pulled up from official Mozilla http://mozilla.debian.net/ repository. The Firefox package has no 'ghostscript' dependency nor recommendation defined.

Dai_trying

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Re: 64 bit Q4OS 1.48 Firefox and Ghostscript error

A quick google tells me it is:

An interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format

so maybe its a dependency of a plugin?

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Re: 64 bit Q4OS 1.48 Firefox and Ghostscript error

Firefox in SW Centre is being pulled up from official Mozilla http://mozilla.debian.net/ repository. The Firefox package has no 'ghostscript' dependency nor recommendation defined.

Well, I can only report what I see.....guess it's an upstream bug of some sort.

I use ghostview a lot to handle awkward vector graphic files, but the only thing I can think of is that FF would be using ghostscript to render pdfs internally. No matter - more a case of raising visibility in case anyone else runs into this.