ghostscript installation differences between root or normal user

Horacio

SuSE 9.0 needs a bulltet through it. My experience is that it was ghods-awful. If you need a 9.x release, upgrade immediately to SuSE 9.3. Also, I wouldn't bother with the "Professional" releases of SuSE unless you need their tech support. The OpenSuSE releases don't have the licensed software problems, and you can easily download more recent and more workable tools for those licensed software's such as MPEG players, DVD players, and database tools from the Packman website.

But setting that aside, SuSE also tends to insist on widdling in the broth of other people's software: their configurations are often seriously distorted, even mangled, from the original authors' layouts and configuration tools to fit them badly into YaST and the SuSE models of how the software should be grouped. The result is fundamental incompatibilities with un-SuSE patched versions of software, such as BIND, DHCP, Sendmail, and Xorg. I'd be unsurprised of Ghostscript also has such incompatibilities.

So if you need a SuSE updated version of Ghostscript, take a look at the SRPM's for SuSE 9.3 or 10.0 and try recompiling those to get your update. That avoids conflicts between hand-installed libraries or fonts interfering with RPM installed ones, and satisfies dependencies for other RPM's that require ghostscript.