<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">(I apologize if this message appears more than once; I haven't used the list in a long time, and I had some problem figuring out how I set it up the first time. I have tried a few times to post, but it has failed to appear...I think I was using the right address this time, though I also tried to post via gmane....)<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Based on some bad internet advice I appear to have installed homebrew without realizing it is not compatible (so to speak) with macports, and so I installed ghostscript via homebrew, without realizing that I had already installed it via macports, and that it appears to have been already installed "natively"...<br><br>What I mean is:<br><br>If I "port installed" I can see<br>ghostscript @9.10_0<br> ghostscript @9.10_2+x11 (active)<br><br>If I "brew list installed" I see<br>ghostscript: stable 9.07, HEAD<br>but actually it is not linked, and I get a message<br>Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.07/bin/wftopfa<br>Target /usr/local/bin/wftopfa already exists. You may need to delete it.<br><br>but if I just run gs straight from the terminal, I have<br>GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)<br><br>I don't know how I
created this mess...but am not sure what to do.<br><br>Should I delete ghostscript from homebrew? If I do will I destroy it from macports? Will I destroy the 9.05 version?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I know that I am using ghostscript with LyX and some other TeX programs...I will have to figure out how to make sure they will still function but I think they all look for gs in usr/local/bin...ack!<br></div></div></body></html>