diff --git a/ghostscript.changes b/ghostscript.changes
index 88f3d32..02a2186 100644
--- a/ghostscript.changes
+++ b/ghostscript.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 16 08:15:18 UTC 2025 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Switch over to libalternatives for ghostscript to provide a gs
+  variant (bsc#1245896)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug  4 07:14:46 UTC 2025 - Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/ghostscript.spec b/ghostscript.spec
index faa177c..4a18f59 100644
--- a/ghostscript.spec
+++ b/ghostscript.spec
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
 %global psuffix %{nil}
 %bcond_without  apparmor
 %endif
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500
+%bcond_without libalternatives
+%else
+%bcond_with libalternatives
+%endif
 Name:           ghostscript%{psuffix}
 Version:        10.05.1
 Release:        0
@@ -62,10 +67,15 @@ BuildRequires:  libpng-devel
 BuildRequires:  libtiff-devel
 BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
+%if %{with libalternatives}
+BuildRequires:  alts
+Requires:       alts
+%else
 BuildRequires:  update-alternatives
-BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 Requires(post): update-alternatives
 Requires(preun): update-alternatives
+%endif
+BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 # Provide the additional RPM Provides of the ghostscript-library package
 # (ghostscript_x11 is provided by the ghostscript-x11 sub-package, see below).
 # The "Provides: ghostscript_any" is there to support "BuildRequires: ghostscript_any"
@@ -342,10 +352,20 @@ install -D -m 644 %{SOURCE10} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/apparmor.d/ghostscript
 %endif
 
 # Move /usr/bin/gs to /usr/bin/gs.bin to be able to use update-alternatives
-install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives
 mv %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/gs %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/gs.bin
+%if %{with libalternatives}
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/libalternatives/gs
+ln -sf %{_bindir}/alts %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/gs
+cat > %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/libalternatives/gs/10.conf <<-EOF
+	binary=%{_bindir}/gs.bin
+	man=gs.1
+	group=gs
+	EOF
+%else
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives
 ln -sf %{_bindir}/gs.bin %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/gs
 ln -sf %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/gs %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/gs
+%endif
 
 %post
 /sbin/ldconfig
@@ -354,20 +374,30 @@ ln -sf %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/gs %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/gs
 %apparmor_reload %{_sysconfdir}/apparmor.d/ghostscript
 %endif
 %endif
+%if ! %{with libalternatives}
 %{_sbindir}/update-alternatives \
   --install %{_bindir}/gs gs %{_bindir}/gs.bin 15
+%endif
 
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
+%if ! %{with libalternatives}
 %preun
 if test $1 -eq 0 ; then
     %{_sbindir}/update-alternatives \
     --remove gs %{_bindir}/gs.bin
 fi
+%endif
 
 %files
 %license LICENSE
+%if %{with libalternatives}
+%dir %{_datadir}/libalternatives/
+%dir %{_datadir}/libalternatives/gs/
+%{_datadir}/libalternatives/gs/10.conf
+%else
 %ghost %config %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/gs
+%endif
 %{_bindir}/dvipdf
 %{_bindir}/eps2eps
 %{_bindir}/gs