Role Name

Ansible role to install GhostScript

Requirements

No

Role Variables

A description of the settable variables for this role should go here, including any variables that are in defaults/main.yml, vars/main.yml, and any variables that can/should be set via parameters to the role. Any variables that are read from other roles and/or the global scope (ie. hostvars, group vars, etc.) should be mentioned here as well.

gs_major_version: 9

GhostScript major version number

gs_minor_version: 21

GhostScript minor version number

gs_archive: "ghostscript-{{ gs_major_version }}.{{ gs_minor_version }}"

GhostScript archive file name

gs_archive_checksum:

GhostScript archive SHA256 checksum

gs_archive_dir: "/tmp/{{ gs_archive }}.tar.gz"

GhostScript archive download directory

gs_unarchive_dir: "/tmp/{{ gs_archive }}"

GhostScript unarchive download directory

gs_fonts_install: false

If you install GhostScript fonts

gs_fonts_download_url: "https://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gs-fonts/gs-fonts/8.11%20%28base%2035%2C%20GPL%29/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz"

GhostScript fonts download URL

gs_fonts_archive: ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz

GhostScript fonts archive name

Dependencies

No

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: kh-eek.ghostscript }

License

BSD

Author Information

Sida Say (sidasay@kheek.com)