On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:52:13AM -0500, Charlie Ebert wrote: > I'm having a hard time printing and decided to use > dselect to load apsfilter. > > When dselect ran the configuration for apsfilter I noticed > that several programs apsfilter used were not there. > > g3cut > html2ps > pnmtolps > ras2ps > recode > bunzip > compress > melt > pack > > Of this list, html2ps and recode I found on the potato directories and > installed them. The rest, I'm not sure about. I couldn't find them.
They are not there. > It occured to me that we should make suggested selections of these other > programs when people install apsfilter. In-fact, I would have a tendency > to make them actual dependency's of apsfilter. There was quite a list of > them > and these were the only ones missing. compress == ncompress in debian, I believe melt and pack are compressionprograms. bzip is the same as bzip2 (more or less), which you have, and the others are some graphicsfilters AFAIK. It might be a good idea to suggest all these packages, but they are not really needed. The compression utils are so you can print conpressed files with the lpr command, e.g.: ``lpr my_novel.tex.bz2'' for example. You could just as well manually bunzip it instead. Go have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/apsfilter for more on apsfilter, it's a really nice program. > It also occured to me, either I don't know how to search for a program by > name > using dselect or there is not feature to search for a program by name using > dselect. There is: ``/'' gets you a promt for somthing you wanna search for. It is documented within dselect. HTH HAND Morten -- UNIX, reach out and grep someone!
