Re: xv package for deb?
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote:
>
> Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program
> by John Bradley.
>
> When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important
> stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted
> to this mailing list scared me :). Anyway, I had xv on my Deb 1.3
> system, and I believe I had to get the source and apply a patch to get
> xv for my system. Does anyone know where these files are? I did a
> search for "xv" in the packages list on Debian's website and nothing
> came up.
>
> Any hints?
Do you really need xv?! Have you ever tried GIMP?
If you only need to put an image on the background you can use xpmroot
(it only takes only xpm files, but you can convert them using GIMP or
the netpbm package).
Ciao
Michele
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