IM not seeing ghostscript on Debian

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IM not seeing ghostscript on Debian

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I've installed the latest IM version through Synaptic package manager (6.6.9). Ghostscript was already installed (v 9.04), also via Synaptic. Converting to pdfs did not work, and finally I tracked it down to IM not having gs listed among delegates:

DELEGATES bzlib djvu fontconfig freetype gvc jpeg jng jp2 lcms lqr openexr png rsvg tiff x11 xml wmf zlib

So, I re-installed ghostscript, reinstalled IM (through synaptic again). That did not help. Then I reinstalled IM, this time forcing a stable version (6.6.0). Same thing, it refuses to see my gs. Both gs and IM are installed in usr/bin/
What else can I try to get it to work?
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Re: IM not seeing ghostscript on Debian

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An hour after a few unsuccessful attempts to generate pdf files, these pdf files have appeared in my folder. There's still no ghostscript among the delegates. Huh.
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Re: IM not seeing ghostscript on Debian

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Did your IM config command include --with-gslib and --with-gs-font-dir=....

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advan ... #configure
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Re: IM not seeing ghostscript on Debian

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fmw42 wrote:Did your IM config command include --with-gslib and --with-gs-font-dir=....

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advan ... #configure
No, I didn't compile, I installed a binary using Synaptic, so I don't know how it was configured. IM had worked before for me, but I recently changed to Debian testing+KDE, which shouldn't in theory affect this. Nevertheless, the pdfs did get generated (they appeared in the folder in 1 hour).
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