Re: xaralx package

[Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 at 16:09, Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> wrote:

Dear Folks,

There used to be a xaralx package for debian but it has been discontinued.

I tried installing the tar file from the xara extreme web site but got an error about libpangoxft-1.0 not being present etc.

I tried installing libpango dev but synaptic said some packages were missing and it failed.

But maybe it wouldn't have helped any way......

I want to produce some 3D text images for a document.

Comments appreciated.

Regards

Michael Fothergill

My suggestion would be install apt-file, either using aptitude or apt-get or synaptic if you prefer.

Then as root:
apt-file update

Once that is done, you can do apt-file search libpangoxft and see what package, if any, in Debian contains it. Then install that package. Or create a dummy package that depends on it and install that, so the library will get removed again if you don't need it later and not clutter your system up.

If the package you need turns out to be the one you already tried, we will need to know the exact errors you are getting to help further.

Mark