Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 28 July 2005 11.38, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Erik Sandberg writes:
> > I have the same problem (I reported it earlier), with the full package. I
> > get the following message when installing:
> >
> > # Checking for Ghostscript ... failed
> > # FAILED:
> > # Package 'Ghostscript' was found but was of the wrong version and the
> > correct version could not be located.
> > #
> > # [IV 8.15 for @artifex.com/ghostscript]
> >
> > Happens on Ubuntu 5.04 and Mandrake 10.0. It seems that the package does
> > not detect its own gs package too old.
>
> How odd.  This might be caused by an older version of autopackage.
> What version of autopackage do you have installed?

I don't know for sure (I don't have access to these machines now), but 
autopackage has only been used to install lilypond there. Hence the version 
is probably the one shipped with lily 2.5.28 or 2.5.30.

If the problem is related to the autopackage version, then the lily 
autopackage should upgrade the package manager automatically IMHO; should 
this be reported to the autopackage guys?

Erik