Installation Script for GhostScript

#This script must be run with admin privledges

#This script downloads and installs ghostscript which is used to convert PDF files to images. 

$Date = [System.datetime]::now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

$Junk = "$Home\Junk$Date"

if(!$(Test-Path $Junk)) { $void = New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $Junk }

#Create a programming folder in our Home directory if it doesn't exist.

$pgmDirectory = "$Home" + "\programming"

if(!$(Test-Path $pgmDirectory)) { $void = New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $pgmDirectory }

#If the TessNet language pack is not downloaded yet, download and extract it.

$gsDirectory = $pgmDirectory + "\GhostScript"

if(!$(Test-Path $gsDirectory)) {

    Write-Host "Downloading GhostScript"

    $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

    $url = "http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/gs914w64.exe"

    $file = "$Junk\gs914w64.exe"

    $webclient.DownloadFile($url,$file)

    Start-Sleep -Seconds 2

    Write-Host "Download complete, now installing GhostScript"

    & "$Junk\gs914w64.exe" "/S" "/NCRC" "/D=$gsDirectory"

    Start-Sleep -Seconds 2

    Write-Host "GhostScript is installed, now cleaning up downloaded files."

}

else {

    Write-Host "GhostScript has already been installed" 

}

Remove-Item $Junk -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

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#Run this commented out section to uninstall GhostScript.  

#This uninstalled assummes that you have it installed in the same directories this script installed it to. 

$unstlDirectory = "$Home" + "\programming" + "\GhostScript"

& "$unstlDirectory\uninstgs.exe "  "/S" "/NCRC"

Remove-Item $unstlDirectory -Force -Recurse

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