Re: mozilla/galeon with gif support?
* Bob Proulx (bob@proulx.com) [020824 17:16]:
> Problem: Those evil patent encumbered GIFs are not working in my
> freshly installed galeon / mozilla installation.
>
> I assume that the Debian galeon is just not shipping support for GIF
> files since we all know the non-free nature of them. And in fact I
> did not notice for a long time. Except to say that ad banners were
> less visible. A nice benefit. However, I ran into one site where I
> really wanted to see a GIF there and noticed that I did not have it
> and now can't figure out how to enable them.
>
> I 'apt-get --purge remove' and then reinstalled a fresh copy of galeon
> and mozilla. I searched with 'apt-cache search'. I searched on
> google quite a bit. But so far have not hit upon any clues.
>
> I have another almost identical Debian installation with Galeon
> installed similarly and I _DO_ see GIFs on that installation. And
> comparing the packages installed on those two boxes have also not
> yielded anything that gave me a clue yet. Both are running galeon
> 1.2.5-0.woody.1. So I believe there must be some other difference.
>
> Any clues? I am sure I am missing something very simple.
galeon v1.2.5-1 requires libungif4g to work... This is a SID package
though. I'd have to believe the woody version won't be much different.
I see gifs on websites just fine too.
Hall
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