Re: brew installation gives a2ps: cannot find file `level1.ppd'

[Reuben Thomas]

Just in case, I did a quick check, and indeed I can't reproduce your problem: a2ps --list-defaults from an installation of a2ps 4.15.3 works fine. As you note, the apparently missing file is installed. Looks like a packaging problem in brew, therefore.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 14:28, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

Please report this bug to brew, not us! 

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2023, 14:18 John Haggerty, <haggerty@bnl.gov> wrote:

After installing a2ps with brew on MacOS Ventura Version 13.3 (22E252)

[~]$ a2ps --version
GNU a2ps 4.15.3
Packaged by Homebrew (4.15.3)

most commands result in cannot find file `level1.ppd'

[~]$ a2ps --list=defaults
a2ps: cannot find file `level1.ppd': No such file or directory

although it comes with the installation:

[~]$ brew list --verbose a2ps | grep -i ppd
/usr/local/Cellar/a2ps/4.15.3/share/a2ps/sheets/ppd.ssh
/usr/local/Cellar/a2ps/4.15.3/share/a2ps/ppd/level2.ppd
/usr/local/Cellar/a2ps/4.15.3/share/a2ps/ppd/level1.ppd
/usr/local/Cellar/a2ps/4.15.3/share/a2ps/ppd/README

and the links are there:

[~]$ dir /usr/local/share/a2ps/ppd
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  5 haggerty  admin   160 Mar 26 16:32 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 haggerty  admin   288 Mar 26 16:32 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 haggerty  admin   301 Mar 26 16:32 README
-rw-r--r--  1 haggerty  admin  1892 Mar 26 16:32 level1.ppd
-rw-r--r--  1 haggerty  admin  2731 Mar 26 16:32 level2.ppd

Thanks in advance for looking at this.

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