If you want to use OMNI drivers extract the source archive in Ghostscript directory: tar xzvf ../Omni-0.9.0.tar.gz Otherwise you must add --without-omni switch to the configure script if you intend to install the shared library. Install Ghostscript by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-gimp-print && make && make install To install the shared library libgs.so you will need . Additionally, if you unpacked the OMNI drivers then you also have to apply the glib patch: patch -Np1 -i ../espgs-7.07.1-glib.patch Proceed with the following commands: make CFLAGS_SO='-fPIC $(ACDEFS)' so && make soinstall The shared library is only used in external programs like . To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've downloaded to /usr/share/ghostscript.