ghostscript installation on linux

http://ghostscript.com/doc/7.07/Install.htm#Install_Unix Installing Ghostscript on Unix Ghostscript uses a GNU autoconf-based configure, build and install method common to many modern software packages. In general the following with suffice to build ghostscript: ./configure make and then it may be installed in the default location with: make install This last command may need to be performed with super user privileges. You can set the installation directory by adding --prefix=path to the configure invocation in the first step. The default prefix is /usr/local, which is to say the gs executable is installed as /usr/local/bin/gs. A list of similar configuration options is available via ./configure --help For more detailed information on building Ghostscript see how to build Ghostscript on Unix in the documentation on building Ghostscript, especially regarding information on using the older hand edited makefile approach. Whatever configuration method you use, execute "make install" to install the executable and all the required and ancillary files after the build is complete.