ghostscript software package provides interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ghostscript
ghostscript is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ghostscript package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ghostscript *
You will get with ghostscript package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | ghostscript |
| Version | 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.3 [amd64, i |
| Description | interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF |
| Sub Section | Text |