After update the ghostscript fails with message: "undefined symbol: cmsCreateContext"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The older version of ghostscript works

# rpm -qa | grep ghost
ghostscript-9.07-18.el7.x86_64

gs
GPL Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS>exit

After the update to the newest version the ghostscript is not longer usable.

# yum update ghostscript 
Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package            Arch     Version            Repository                 Size
================================================================================
Updating:
 ghostscript        x86_64   9.07-20.el7_3.3    rhel-7-workstation-rpms   4.3 M
Updating for dependencies:
 ghostscript-cups   x86_64   9.07-20.el7_3.3    rhel-7-workstation-rpms    56 k

Dependency Updated:
  ghostscript.x86_64 0:9.07-20.el7_3.3                                          
  ghostscript-cups.x86_64 0:9.07-20.el7_3.3                                     

Complete!

gs 
gs: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgs.so.9: undefined symbol: cmsCreateContext

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x
  • ghostscript

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