Comment 15 for bug 583990

I previously installed ghostscript and libgs8 from Till Kamppeter's ppa.

When I tried to follow the instructions given above, I get the following
results:

frying-pan:~/text/papers/jingyue/fourthtry> sudo aptitude install ghostscript/lucid-proposed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  ghostscript
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  akonadi-server{u} kdebase-workspace-bin{u} kdebase-workspace-data{u} kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plugins{u}
  kdepim-runtime{u} ksysguardd{u} libdb4.6{u} libgda3-sqlite{u} libkephal4{u} libkfontinst4{u}
  libkscreensaver5{u} libksgrd4{u} libkworkspace4{u} libplasma-applet-system-monitor4{u}
  libplasma-geolocation-interface4{u} libplasmaclock4{u} libplasmagenericshell4{u} libpolkit-dbus2{u}
  libpolkit-gnome0{u} libpolkit-grant2{u} libpolkit2{u} libprocesscore4{u} libprocessui4{u}
  libqimageblitz4{u} libsolidcontrol4{u} libsolidcontrolifaces4{u} libtaskmanager4{u} libweather-ion4{u}
  plasma-dataengines-workspace{u} plasma-widgets-workspace{u} policykit{u}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  psfontmgr
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 31 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 786kB of archives. After unpacking 50.0MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  ghostscript: Depends: libgs8 (= 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3) but 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3~0ppa1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Upgrade the following packages:
libgs8 [8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3~0ppa1 (lucid, now) -> 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3 (lucid-proposed)]

Score is 80

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

What it says about ghostscript and lbigs8 make sense, but I'm hesitant
to continue when it says that all those other packages (I'm not really
sure what they do) are to be REMOVED.

Should I go ahead and remove these packages?