What's the easiest way to upgrade Ghostscript?

Question

I have version 8 of Ghostscript on my Ubuntu 10.04 server.

What is the easiest way to install version 9? Source install? PPA? Something else?

Answer 1

default version

The recommended way is (as posted before):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostscript

Ghostscript 10 via terminal

If you need a newer version than provided by your Ubuntu-Version:

mkdir -p ~/prgm
cd ~/prgm
wget https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs10031/ghostscript-10.03.1.tar.gz
tar xvf ghostscript-10.03.1.tar.gz
cd ghostscript-10.03.1/
sudo ./configure
sudo make install
#restart Terminal
gs -v
ghostscript -v

current Ghostscript manually

• Download "Ghostscript 10 Source" from https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html (direct link to gs 10.03.1)
• uncompress it (f.e. tar xvf ghostscript-10.03.1.tar.gz)
• go into this folder
• sudo ./configure
• sudo make install
• restart Terminal
• Test with gs -v

To check your version (maybe after restarting terminal)

ghostscript -v

Answer 2

ghostscript is not found under Ubuntu Software Center

So, either install it from there or you can just update your current version to latest one:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostscript

If that doesn't work download one of the following:

• 64 bit
• 32bit

Then:

sudo dpkg -i /path-to-downloadedpackage.deb