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 && make && make install To install the shared library libgs.so, run the following commands additionally: patch -Np1 -i ../espgs-7.07.1rc2-gdevpng.patch && make so && make soinstall The shared library is only used in external programs like . To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've loaded to /usr/share/ghostscript.