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Re: "package pgm2tiff not found" . . .



On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:14:04AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-02-27 at 09:56, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:41:18PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >>  Well, partially thank you that did it [...]
> > 
> >> $ date; time apt-file search pgm2tiff
> >> Do 27. Feb 15:30:21 CET 2020
> > 
> > But we did know this one, didn't we? Internet searches (for me) turn empty
> > too. Perhaps pgm2tiff is in the Big Bit Graveyard...
> 
> I don't find it either, but I do find a program called 'pnmtotiff', part
> of the netpbm package.
> 
> PGM stands for "portable graymap", and PNM stands for "portable anymap",
> and the man page of pnmtotiff indicates that it is capable of accepting
> PGM files as input.

This looks like a hit. Perhaps one could even alias pnmtotiff to pgm2tiff,
in the hope that the command line arguments are compatible (difficult
to say for a program so difficult to get hold of, though ;-)

Cheers
-- t

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