I have been trying to install Debian (and Mint) on an HP Pavilion Desktop. The installation goes smoothly until "Grub" begins to install. At that point the entire system freezes. I have tried the install multiple times with the same result each time. Has anyone else had a similar problem and if so what did you do to work around it? Thanks for any help you can provide.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:53 AM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > 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. > > -- *David Anthony* Church Service Missionary 33 Centerville Commons Way Centerville, UT 84014 Cell-801-360-4 <801-709-9430>950
