[wpkg-users] Ghostscript 10 not finishing

[Ulli Conrad]

Hi,

On 25.04.2023 at 16:39 Andreas Schamanek wrote:

> With Ghostscript 9.x I was successfully using (basically)
> 
> <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\gs%vshort%w64.exe /S /D=%prgdir%' />
> 
> without problems. But Ghostscript 10.0.1 (gs10011w64.exe) even without 
> `/D=%prgdir%` starts but never finishes.
> 
> And indeed, even when I run it with `/S` from a cmd.exe it asks for 
> confirmation.
> 
> Today, I saw that RuckZuck updated the Ghostscript package to 10, too, 
> and they are also using `/S` and it works (I tried it w/ their 10.0.0).
> 
> Is this an issue on ghostscript's side? Why does it work for RuckZuck?

Unfortunatley they company doesn't any longer want GS to be installed 
silently, don't ask why, it's a shame...

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706495

- Ulli -

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