diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py
index ba787f858f8f40b1b2766456e0c359a0f954be00..3a121111a3cad30242765fe8ea8923b5da4e7545 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 class Ghostscript(Package):
     """an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. """
     homepage = "http://ghostscript.com/"
-    url      = "http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.16.tar.gz"
+    url      = "http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/old-gs-releases/ghostscript-9.16.tar.gz"
 
     version('9.16', '829319325bbdb83f5c81379a8f86f38f')
 
@@ -38,4 +38,3 @@ def install(self, spec, prefix):
 
         make()
         make("install")
-