The missing ps2pdf mystery

Continuing the saga of fixing printing in Easy Dunfell, see previous post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202104/foomatic-ppds-now-in-easyos.html

Posting here as a placemarker, putting down the thoughts so far. Will append to this post if/when solved.

Feodor reported that /usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf-writer wants /usr/bin/ps2pdf, which is missing.

'pdf-writer' is a script, and I had to hunt where that came from. It is in PET package 'cups_pdf'. This is an ancient PET, for printing a Postscript or PDF to file. But the GTK print dialog offers "Print to file" as well, so 'cups_pdf' is redundant, so have removed that PET.

I looked at packages.debian.org and found that 'ps2pdf' is part of the 'ghostscript' package. Interesting, my ghostscript, compiled in OE, doesn't have it.

I don't know if 'ps2pdf' is needed for anything, but will go back to OE and play with the configure options and dependencies, see if can build that utility.

EDIT:
Fixed. 'ps2pdf' is just a script. Fixed the 'ghostscript' recipe in OE to install that, plus some other scripts, to /usr/bin.  

Tags: easy