xv in debian

[Joel Hammer]

Thank you.

My installation of xv with debian never configured right,
and I couldn't install anymore software until I ran apt-get
-f install, which fixed the problem but which erased xv,
as I feared.

This binary version works, so far.


Joel


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:22:13PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:36:46 -0500
> "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:33:58 -0500
> > Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > xv has about 11 or so patches you need to apply to get it to compile on
> > a recent system.  I agree about xv being absolutely necessary on any
> > system running X.  I've been using it for going on 15 years now.  Won't
> > do without it.
> > 
> 
> Have you seen the  Lurawave patched version? They sell fractal
> compression software, and patched xv with it. It's a free
> download, 
> http://www.linuxarchives.com/compression.html
> 
> It really does do a better job of compression.
> 
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