gsview on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.02)

Compilation

To compile the sources of gsview-4.9, gtk-config is necessary.

apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev
wget -c http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv49src.zip

  unzip -aa gsv49src.zip
  unzip -o gsv49src.zip "gsview-4.9/binary/*"
  cd gsview-4.9
  cp srcunx/unx.mak Makefile
  make

cd gsview-4.9/bin/

gsview*  gvxct.htm  gvxde.htm  gvxen.htm  gvxes.htm  gvxfr.htm  gvxgr.htm  gvxit.htm  gvxnl.htm  gvxru.htm  gvxse.htm  gvxsk.htm

check your gs version

~$ gs -version
GPL Ghostscript 8.61 (2007-11-21)
Copyright (C) 2007 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved

Options -> Advanced Configure.. ->

Ghostscript Version -> 861
Ghostscript Shared Object : libgs.so.8

-> OK

Options -> Save Settings Now

The more detailed configuration will be found in the old posts.

2007/08/24 - [computer/linux] - gsview on ubuntu linux (6.10)
2008/01/01 - [computer/linux] - Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path


Installation

make install

mkdir -p /usr/local
chmod 755 /usr/local
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin
install -m 755 ./bin/gsview /usr/local/bin/gsview
install -m 755 ./srcunx/gvxhelp.txt /usr/local/bin/gsview-help
mkdir -p /usr/local/man
chmod 755  /usr/local/man
mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1
chmod 755  /usr/local/man/man1
install -m 644 ./srcunx/gsview.1 /usr/local/man/man1/gsview.1
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc
chmod 755 /usr/local/share/doc
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9
chmod 755  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9
install -m 644 gsview.css /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gsview.css
install -m 644 cdorder.txt /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/cdorder.txt
install -m 644 regorder.txt /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/regorder.txt
install -m 644 Readme.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/Readme.htm
install -m 644 LICENCE /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/LICENCE
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxct.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxct.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxde.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxde.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxen.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxen.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxes.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxes.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxfr.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxfr.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxgr.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxgr.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxit.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxit.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxnl.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxnl.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxru.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxru.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxse.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxse.htm
install -m 644 ./bin/gvxsk.htm  /usr/local/share/doc/gsview-4.9/gvxsk.htm
mkdir -p /etc
chmod 755  /etc
mkdir -p /etc/gsview
chmod 755  /etc/gsview
install -m 644 ./src/printer.ini  /etc/gsview/printer.ini

Modification

emacs /usr/local/bin/gsview-help &

#!/bin/sh
# This script runs the GSview help
# $1 is the help file name
# $2 is the topic name

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
  echo "Usage: $0 URL [TAG]"
  echo "  URL: The URL to open"
  echo "  TAG: The anchor at that url"
  exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]
then
  TAG=''
else
  TAG="#$2"
fi

if mozilla -remote openFile\(file://$1$TAG\) ; then
    exit 0
else
    mozilla file://$1$TAG
fi
exit 0

you should change mozilla to firefox .