Complete Guide: Installing ghostscript-dbg on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "ghostscript-dbg" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install ghostscript-dbg on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "ghostscript-dbg" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall ghostscript-dbg on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ghostscript-dbg package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: ghostscript-dbg
Architecture: amd64
Version: 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14
Priority: extra
Section: debug
Source: ghostscript
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Printing Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 30649
Depends: libgs9 (= 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14) | ghostscript (= 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14) | ghostcript-cups (= 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14) | ghostcript-x (= 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14)
Filename: pool/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-dbg_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14_amd64.deb
Size: 6294240
MD5sum: 7d16fd3879e2c67dbbf2c2509672770f
SHA1: e913b0ab532f43ae8f2a23c83c84dadd5f6e2c3e
SHA256: 9f7990476a81f6692baaadf4d5b0fcf070b158418ae13fbac8d782b8cf0b6512
SHA512: d20504b5a2b03f164da72bf2a74eeca25809542d67fd2d9360a9233fa62bf4d900523ee0eb060edfcc9a6da4442960cafe7db778b1e4a4c00323f595a0fb1e60
Homepage: http://www.ghostscript.com/
Description-en: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Debug symbols
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
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This package contains the debugging symbols for ghostscript, ghostscript-x,
ghostscript-cups and libgs9.
Description-md5: b88404b3189bdd4e7a7b79221e98739c
Supported: 5y

Package: ghostscript-dbg
Priority: extra
Section: debug
Installed-Size: 27501
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Printing Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: ghostscript
Version: 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2
Depends: libgs9 (= 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2) | ghostscript (= 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2) | ghostcript-cups (= 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2) | ghostcript-x (= 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2)
Filename: pool/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-dbg_9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 5713162
MD5sum: bc9b8fc2557bb94ad2f078762226f9f5
SHA1: 5d50e328ad1721ce21b74525d8f6399ef93604f4
SHA256: f17a2842ad291547d8d074231572e35769ac773ce24ce19974485f9b130d1d00
Description-en: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Debug symbols
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
This package contains the debugging symbols for ghostscript, ghostscript-x,
ghostscript-cups and libgs9.
Description-md5: b88404b3189bdd4e7a7b79221e98739c
Homepage: http://www.ghostscript.com/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m