<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 23, 2020, at 13:53, Doris Behrendt via MacOSX-TeX <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" class="">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Dick and others,<br class=""><br class="">I’ll do that. But meanwhile I tried alternatives and wanted to let you know what I came up with and what problem occurred on the way:<br class=""><br class="">install ghostscript via brew<br class=""><br class="">(base) Doriss-Mac-mini:logo bd$ brew link --overwrite ghostscript<br class="">Linking /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.53.3... <br class="">Error: Could not symlink share/doc/ghostscript/9.53.3/API.htm<br class="">/usr/local/share/doc/ghostscript/9.53.3 is not writable.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">So, following this link <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/192227/how-to-make-files-in-usr-local-writable-for-homebrew" class="">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/192227/how-to-make-files-in-usr-local-writable-for-homebrew</a><br class=""><br class="">I had to temporarily change the ownership of the folder /urs/local<br class=""><br class="">I changed from root:wheel to me:staff and after I did this, the linking went through:<br class=""><br class="">brew link --overwrite ghostscript<br class="">Linking /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.53.3... 568 symlinks created<br class=""><br class="">after this, I could finally run<br class=""><br class="">dvisvgm --libgs=/usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.9.53.dylib ct-logo.dvi<br class=""><br class="">and get my svg.<br class=""><br class="">So could there be some ownership issues while installing with the installer from your page?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Doris, </div><div><br class=""></div><div>glad you got it to work. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>The ownership is most likely not an issue. When you install HomeBrew it prompts you to change ownership of /usr/local to yourself so that you don’t have to use “sudo” all the time. The best time to do it is <i class="">before</i> you install anything else, otherwise you have to do a recursive “chown -R”, as you have seen from the stackexchange link. By the way, it’s probably better to chown to yourself:wheel, instead of yourself:staff. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Also , brew symlinks into /usr/local, by default, so you would find your library in /usr/local/lib/libgs.9.53.dylib (shorter path).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Ettore</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Ettore Aldrovandi</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Department of Mathematics, Florida State University</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">1017 Academic Way * <a href="http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov" class="">http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>