xv in debian

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I had the debian package lying around in my other
lindows cache, the older version of lindows. I couldn't
ftp the package from the internet server. So:

============================================
dpkg -i /home/jlh/xv_3.10a-25_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package xv.
(Reading database ... 58897 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xv (from /home/jlh/xv_3.10a-25_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xv:
 xv depends on xlib6g (>= 3.3.6)
However:
  Package xlib6g is not installed.
	dpkg: error processing xv (--install):
	 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
	 Errors were encountered while processing:
	  xv
=================================================

I couldn't install xlib6g with apt-get.

========================================================
apt-get install xlib6g
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package xlib6g has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
However the following packages replace it:
  libxaw6 xlibs libxaw6-dbg
	E: Package xlib6g has no installation candidate
==============================================================

So, next try:

================================================================
apt-get install libxaw6 xlibs libxaw6-dbg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
libxaw6 is already the newest version.
xlibs is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libxaw6-dbg: Depends: libxaw6 (= 4.2.1-12.1) but 4.3.0-0pre1v4.0.0.lindows0.1.0.4 is to be installed
	  xv: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3.6) but it is not installable
		E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
=============================================================================='

I believe apt-get -f install removes xv, although I don't
want to try this again.

ANYWAY, XV RUNS. Life without xv is hardly possible
in linux.

I got the source code and tried to compile that but:

1. Got errors in the tif files. I commented them out in the make file.
Before that I tried CC = gcc -ansi -traditional, but
gcc doesn't list either of those options with gcc --help.

2. Then, got a whole bunch of missing X11 files.

In file included from xv.c:11:
xv.h:72: X11/Xos.h: No such file or directory
In file included from xv.c:11:
xv.h:174: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
xv.h:175: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
xv.h:176: X11/cursorfont.h: No such file or directory
xv.h:177: X11/keysym.h: No such file or directory
xv.h:178: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
xv.h:179: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory
xv.h:180: X11/Xmd.h: No such file or directory
xv.c:20: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [xv.o] Error 1

I can't find them so I gave up on trying to compile xv.

Well, at least xv seems to be working, which is the point of the exercise.

Joel



On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 07:05:26AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:55:34 -0500
> Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> 
> > I want to install xv on my debian system.
> > I have done this in the past by using:
> > deb ftp://ftp.mowgli.ch/pub/debian 
> > 
> 
> ftp the xv package to your system.  Then run:
> dpkg -i ./xv-xx.i386.deb
> substitute the correct filename of the file above.
> 
> If you get errors, we can work them out from there.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel
> - --