[COLUG] Ubuntu Packages

[Mark Erbaugh]

I would like to upgrade the version of Ghostscript that was installed
with Ubuntu Dapper (8.15.2 ESP).  I believe I need to do this to install
an updated version of gutenprint, which has support for my printer.

I've downloaded and built the latest version 8.61 GPL of Ghostscript,
but I can't install using dpkg it as it complains that one of the files
it wants to replace is used by the package gs-esp. I suspect that it is
just one of many file that are used, it's just the first one it found.

If I try to uninstall gs-esp, the package manager warns me that a bunch
of other files, such as cups will be uninstalled.  That makes sense as
they are dependent on Ghostscript. Is there an easy way to upgrade a
package on which other packages are depending when the new package has a
different name than the one it is replacing?

Thanks,
Mark