Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Fixing an exception while installing ghostscript on MacOS X using macports

If you ever encountered the following exception while installing ghostscript using macports:

--->  Verifying checksums for ghostscript
Error: org.macports.checksum for port ghostscript returned: ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz does not exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript
Error: Failed to install ghostscript

 The solution is very simple.

Simply download the missing file from here and place it manually in

/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript

This should fix it.

It took me awhile to find it and I would like to thanks this thread to pointing me to the right answer.