If you want to use OMNI drivers extract the source archive in Ghostscript directory: tar xzvf ../Omni-0.9.0.tar.gz Install Ghostscript by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gs \ --enable-shared --enable-static && make && make install To install the shared library libgs.so, run the following commands additionally: 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.