Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

[CHUCK@URIACC.URI.EDU]

      I retrieved dvisvga and dvilx from slink. I tried to install them
      with dpkg.   Each attempt fails with
the message tetex-bin is required but not installed. What am I missing
about this?
           chuck kaufman
               chuck@uriacc.uri.edu

>On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Paul Seelig wrote:

>> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 CHUCK@URIACC.URI.EDU wrote:
>>
> > I have just upgraded to 2.0. Previously I could view .dvi files with xdvi.
> > It is no longer present. Is there a .dvi viewer (preferably for x) that
> > does not require a tetex installation?
> >
>> Yes, there is tmview-98.06, which is split into the two .deb packages
>> "dvisvga" for the console and "dvilx" for X11. Both work just great and
>> especially "dvisvga" is a great means for having true WYSIWYG right at the
>> console. These packages are not present in Debian-2.0 but you can easily
>> fetch the sources from "frozen" and compile it yourself. I've already done

>dvisvga and dvilx from slink (frozen) work perfectly under debian 2.0,
>there's no need to recompile them :) Btw debian 2.0 has the binary package
>tmview which has only an svga viewer. I split it into dvisvga and dvilx
>since the latest tmview supports X nicely.

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