On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:57:28PM -0700, Jiri Klouda wrote: > I just wanted to ask when xv is going to be updated It isn't. > or do I need to compile from sources? You can use this to fetch the last source package: # unofficial xv source deb-src http://debian.uni-essen.de/misc/local/ theo-phys local That'll get you the last debian package from back in the Potato days (-26). It's not hard to build it against the current stable or unstable. The -26 package had quite a few problems besides its licensing. Patches that didn't apply properly and so forth, and there are a couple of things you have to do to get it to build on gcc 4.x. I'm up to -39 in my own local copy, although I've patched the h*ll out of it too. Against unstable, of course, you have to deal with the modular X transition and move the binary into /usr/bin as well. There's no tool quite like xv, that wraps so many useful things into one binary. -- Marc Wilson | What soon grows old? Gratitude. -- Aristotle msw@cox.net |
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