How To Install ghostscript.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostscript.i686
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is ghostscript.i686
This package provides useful conversion utilities based on Ghostscript software, for converting PS, PDF and other document formats between each other. Ghostscript is a suite of software providing an interpreter for Adobe Systems’ PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its primary purpose includes displaying (rasterization & rendering) and printing of document pages, as well as conversions between different document formats.
We can use yum
to install ghostscript.i686
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghostscript.i686.
Install ghostscript.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ghostscript.i686
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghostscript.i686
How To Uninstall ghostscript.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the ghostscript.i686
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove ghostscript.i686
ghostscript.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/dvipdf
/usr/bin/eps2eps
/usr/bin/ghostscript
/usr/bin/gs
/usr/bin/gsbj
/usr/bin/gsdj
/usr/bin/gsdj500
/usr/bin/gslj
/usr/bin/gslp
/usr/bin/gsnd
/usr/bin/lprsetup.sh
/usr/bin/pdf2dsc
/usr/bin/pdf2ps
/usr/bin/pf2afm
/usr/bin/pfbtopfa
/usr/bin/pphs
/usr/bin/printafm
/usr/bin/ps2ascii
/usr/bin/ps2epsi
/usr/bin/ps2pdf
/usr/bin/ps2pdf12
/usr/bin/ps2pdf13
/usr/bin/ps2pdf14
/usr/bin/ps2pdfwr
/usr/bin/ps2ps
/usr/bin/ps2ps2
/usr/bin/unix-lpr.sh
/usr/lib/ghostscript
/usr/lib/ghostscript/X11.so
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dvipdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/eps2eps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/gsnd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/pdf2dsc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/pdf2ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/printafm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ps2ascii.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ps2pdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ps2pdf12.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ps2pdf13.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ps2pdf14.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ps2ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvipdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/eps2eps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ghostscript.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsbj.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsdj.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsdj500.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gslj.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gslp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsnd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdf2dsc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdf2ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pf2afm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pfbtopfa.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/printafm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2ascii.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2epsi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2pdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2pdf12.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2pdf13.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2pdf14.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2pdfwr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ps2ps.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostscript.i686
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.