[tex-live] gsftopk missing?

[Janusz S. Bień]

I tried to run TL7 under Linux directly from the 20020508 CD image on
a computer which was incidentally missing ghostscript. It appears that
without separately installed ghostscript, and gsftopk in particular,
TL7 is almost unusable. Is it intentional?

Below I enclose more details.

Best regards

Janusz

Log excerpts:

bash-2.05$ xdvi PWN.dvi 
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 ecti1200
mktexpk: Running gsftopk ecti1200 600
gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2
gs: No such file or directory
gs terminated abnormally with status 1
[...]
grep: ecrm1000.log: No such file or directory
mktexpk: `gsftopk ecrm1000 600' failed to make ecrm1000.600pk.
xdvi.bin: can't find font ecrm1000; using cmr10 instead at 600 dpi.
xdvi.bin: Not all pixel files were found

BTW,  xdvi didn't displayed anything.



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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
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