Ghostscript and MoodleBox

AlexN

Has anybody gotten Ghostscript to work with MoodleBox?

I've been trying to follow these instructions but I can't get it to work and I wonder if it just can't be installed on a raspberry pi.

Ghostscript is needed for PDF annotation.

Nicolas

Ratna I think you installed it yourself manually, since it's not installed by default.

AlexN Has anybody gotten Ghostscript to work with MoodleBox?

To install Ghostscript, log into the CLI of the MoodleBox, then type in

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostscript -y

You can then test your Ghostcript path:

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Ratna

Ghostscript itself is there. In the MoodleBox terminal:

gs

I didn't test the PDF annotation in MoodleBox yet. I have seen that never Moodle versions use a whole lot of programs like unconv and others from OpenOffice. And also there are broken PDFs. May be you could start at the other end. Upload a PDF to MoodleBox which is known to be "annotatable" in another Moodle and go from there.

AlexN

Thanks Nicolas. It worked.

Every other instruction I found online only mentioned sudo apt-get install ghostscript -y but I guess it doesn't work without sudo apt-get update being run first.