James <pkx1...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > > On 22 October 2013 07:51, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> James <pkx1...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > XPDF in Ubuntu 10.04 - my lilydev at home works. version 3.0.2 >> > >> > xpdf in Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) whatever that is the Ubuntu Equiv (it's >> not >> > the Debian one) crashes - I think that is 13.04. Version 3.0.3. >> >> Do you keep it updated? Do _they_ keep it updated? >> >> Thanks >> > > Well it doesn't come installed by default so I had to sudo apt-get install > it. So that is as current as it comes in the repos. > > The answer is there for No and Yes - as > http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html seems to be the most current > version there is.
The problem is not whether Xpdf is 3.03. The Debian/Ubuntu versions have had the "xpdf" library surgically removed into the "Poppler" library which is maintained somewhat differently. The reasons for the crashes are not a problem with upstream Xpdf, but divergences of the Poppler APIs. So there are working as well as broken adaptations of Xpdf in Debian/Ubuntu. > I noticed that a few things were also installed, here is a snip of the > History.log from my apt log from Linux Mint. > > --snip-- > Start-Date: 2013-10-22 07:05:05 > Commandline: apt-get install xpdf > Install: lesstif2:amd64 (0.95.2-1.1, automatic), xpdf:amd64 > (3.03-10ubuntu1), gsfonts-x11:amd64 (0.22, automatic) 3.03-10ubuntu1 was a broken version IIRC. Looking at <URL:https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf>, this seems to be the "current" version for Raring Ringtail. Ugh. If you take a look at <URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/943195>, you'll notice that Dmitry uploaded a backport for Raring to his respective PPA. Would it be feasible to check that out, and if it works, report enthusiastically to the bug report? Or so... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
