# ghostscript mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, chocolatey, scoop installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ghostscript in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:ghostscript ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install ghostscript ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install ghostscript ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: print/ghostscript/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add ghostscript ``` Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ghostscript from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install ghostscript ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: ghostscript from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install ghostscript ``` Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghostscript from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/210a2053c8e007daf9ae39c2a21daaed9b2ddd07d63ecffa597050361e73650c-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#ghostscript ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostscript/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S ghostscript ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: ghostscript from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install ghostscript ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ghostscript from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install Ghostscript ``` Evidenz: Chocolatey community package catalog: Ghostscript from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','fusioninventory-agent' - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/ghostscript ``` Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/ghostscript.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ghostscript - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 10.07.1 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Interpreter for PostScript and PDF - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** AGPL-3.0-or-later - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-23T00:55:24Z - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - dvipdf (cli) - eps2eps (cli) - gpcl6 (cli) - gpcl6c (cli) - gpdlc (cli) - gs (cli) - gsbj (cli) - gsc (cli) - gsdj (cli) - gsdj500 (cli) - gslj (cli) - gslp (cli) - gsnd (cli) - gsx (cli) - gxps (cli) - gxpsc (cli) - lprsetup.sh (cli) - pdf2dsc (cli) - pdf2ps (cli) - pf2afm (cli) - pfbtopfa (cli) - pphs (cli) - printafm (cli) - ps2ascii (cli) - ps2epsi (cli) - ps2pdf (cli) - ps2pdf12 (cli) - ps2pdf13 (cli) - ps2pdf14 (cli) - ps2pdfwr (cli) - ps2ps (cli) - ps2ps2 (cli) - unix-lpr.sh (cli) - dvipdf (Alias) - eps2eps (Alias) - gpcl6 (Alias) - gpcl6c (Alias) - gpdlc (Alias) - gs (Alias) - gsbj (Alias) - gsc (Alias) - gsdj (Alias) - gsdj500 (Alias) - gslj (Alias) - gslp (Alias) - gsnd (Alias) - gsx (Alias) - gxps (Alias) - gxpsc (Alias) - lprsetup.sh (Alias) - pdf2dsc (Alias) - pdf2ps (Alias) - pf2afm (Alias) - pfbtopfa (Alias) - pphs (Alias) - printafm (Alias) - ps2ascii (Alias) - ps2epsi (Alias) - ps2pdf (Alias) - ps2pdf12 (Alias) - ps2pdf13 (Alias) - ps2pdf14 (Alias) - ps2pdfwr (Alias) - ps2ps (Alias) - ps2ps2 (Alias) - unix-lpr.sh (Alias) ## Abhängigkeiten - fontconfig - freetype - jbig2dec - jpeg-turbo - leptonica - libarchive - libidn - libpng - libtiff - little-cms2 - openjpeg - tesseract ## Build-Abhängigkeiten - pkgconf ## Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken - expat ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Einschränkungen: Ghostscript is now built `--without-versioned-path`. Temporary backwards compatibility symlinks exist but will be removed with 10.07.0 release. - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-04 - Manager-Version: 10.07.1 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-05-23 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads - Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung Ghostscript is a long-running interpreter and conversion engine for PostScript and PDF files, with related GhostPDL components for other page description languages. ### Projektgeschichte Ghostscript dates to the late 1980s: the official version history lists Ghostscript 1.0 on August 11, 1988, followed by early 1.x releases in 1989. The documentation describes the core product as a PostScript interpreter layer paired with a graphics library. The project grew from a PostScript interpreter into the Ghostscript/GhostPDL family. Official documentation describes GhostPDF, GhostPCL, GhostXPS, and GhostPDL as related products sharing the Ghostscript graphics library, while Artifex documents a newer C-based PDF interpreter and the commercial Ghostscript Enterprise line. ### Adoptionsgeschichte Ghostscript became infrastructure for Unix printing, document conversion, prepress, archiving, and server-side PDF workflows. The project website describes uses in printers, multifunction devices, raster image processors, document management systems, PDF generation tools, and cloud printing. ### Wie es verwendet wird Practitioners usually encounter Ghostscript through the `gs` executable or helper commands such as `ps2pdf`. Common workflows include rendering PostScript or PDF to images, converting PostScript to PDF, selecting output devices, compressing or optimizing PDF files, and embedding the engine through an SDK. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren Package nerds care about Ghostscript because it is one of the classic pieces of document-processing plumbing: a package that quietly enables print filters, TeX and publishing toolchains, image conversion, PDF generation, and archival pipelines across many operating systems. ### Zeitleiste - 1988: Ghostscript 1.0 released. - 1989: Ghostscript 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 released. - 2010: Ghostscript 9.00 released. - 2022: Ghostscript 10.00.0 released. ### Related projects - Related Artifex projects and product names include GhostPDF, GhostPCL, GhostXPS, GhostPDL, MuPDF, and Ghostscript Enterprise. ### Quellen - - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise generalized runtime or code generation signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel - generalized runtime or code generation signal ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** ghostscript - **Aliases:** gs - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Conflicts With:** gambit-scheme, gerbil-scheme - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - ghostscript - 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ghostscript from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Debian apt - ghostscript-doc - 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ghostscript-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Documentation | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Debian apt - libgs-common - 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgs-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - ICC profiles | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Debian apt - libgs-dev - 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgs-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Development Files | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Debian apt - libgs10 - 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgs10 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Library | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Debian apt - libgs10-common - 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgs10-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - common files | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Nix - ghostscript: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostscript/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - ghostscript - 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ghostscript from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Ubuntu apt - ghostscript-doc - 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ghostscript-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Documentation | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Ubuntu apt - libgs-common - 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgs-common from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - ICC profiles | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Ubuntu apt - libgs-dev - 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgs-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Development Files | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Ubuntu apt - libgs10 - 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgs10 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Library | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - Ubuntu apt - libgs10-common - 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgs10-common from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - common files | https://www.ghostscript.com/ - apk - ghostscript - 10.07.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ghostscript from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF | https://ghostscript.com/ - apk - ghostscript-dbg - 10.07.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ghostscript-dbg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF (debug symbols) | https://ghostscript.com/ - apk - ghostscript-dev - 10.07.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ghostscript-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF (development files) | https://ghostscript.com/ ## Verwandte Links - [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/de/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/de/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://pkg.so/de/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [libpng](https://pkg.so/de/brew/libpng/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [jpeg-turbo](https://pkg.so/de/brew/jpeg-turbo/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [fontconfig](https://pkg.so/de/brew/fontconfig/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [libtiff](https://pkg.so/de/brew/libtiff/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [freetype](https://pkg.so/de/brew/freetype/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [little-cms2](https://pkg.so/de/brew/little-cms2/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [libarchive](https://pkg.so/de/brew/libarchive/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [tesseract](https://pkg.so/de/brew/tesseract/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pkgconf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [ocrmypdf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ocrmypdf/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [imagemagick-full](https://pkg.so/de/brew/imagemagick-full/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [octave](https://pkg.so/de/brew/octave/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [pstoedit](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pstoedit/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [texlive](https://pkg.so/de/brew/texlive/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [groff](https://pkg.so/de/brew/groff/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [fig2dev](https://pkg.so/de/brew/fig2dev/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [epstool](https://pkg.so/de/brew/epstool/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [psutils](https://pkg.so/de/brew/psutils/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, pdf, postscript. - [md2pdf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/md2pdf/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, document-conversion, media, pdf. - [paps](https://pkg.so/de/brew/paps/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, document-conversion, media, postscript, printing. - [poster](https://pkg.so/de/brew/poster/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, postscript, printing. - [ps2eps](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ps2eps/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, document-conversion, media, pdf, postscript. - [paperjam](https://pkg.so/de/brew/paperjam/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, pdf, printing. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ghostscript.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ghostscript.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph