On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:39:29AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > In Debian I think that xv fell by the wayside between woody and sarge. > It seemed to get stuck at 3.10a. IIRC it was always in non-free > because of its licence, so I can only check via my dpkg -l > listings. So I haven't used it for 15 years, moving on to xzgv. > xv is really an editor, isn't it?
It was a pretty ubiquitous image display/modification tool in previous decades. So much so, that I still use it today -- of course, not from an official Debian package, as those stopped being produced ages ago. But it's still possible to compile it, with a bit of extra flaming-hoop-jumping. wooledg:~$ dpkg -s xv | grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) The flaming-est hoop here is the PNG library, because someone decided that the PNG library should completely break compatibility, not just at the ABI level, but at the API level, a few years ago. You can get libpng12* packages from older Debian releases. Some assembly required.
