Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:47, Robert Latest <boblatest@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've searched the Net up and down but had to realize in puzzlement
> that I seem to be the only one with this problem. After an upgrade
> from stable to testing I found that xpdf had gone. Sure enough, the
> page about the package "xpdf" at
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xpdf says:
>
> "This package is intended for compatibility with previous versions of
> this package only. You can safely remove it from your system."
>
> OK, but where is the "xpdf" program now? The only thing with "xpdf" in
> its name is some virtual package called "xpdf-utils" which is provided
> by poppler-utils which doesn't contain xpdf.
It is probably gone. Poppler was forked from xpdf a long time ago,
and AFAIK it is better in every way. So just use a Poppler based
program, such as Okular or Evince (or evince-gtk, which has no
gconf or gnome keyring support).
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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