Re: xpdf situation with Ubuntu?

[James]

On 22/10/13 08:43, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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...
Well I looked at the links and found the stuff in the queue but when I 
try to download it and compile it, there is no deb file to add directly 
that I can find. It complains about missing dependencies when I run 
configure.

I don't have the space cycles at the moment to work out why (as what it 
is complaining about does exist on my system - X, Motif and Freetype - 
although in classic non-friendly developer way, there are no such 
literal packages as Motif or 'Freetype' (it's probably called 
free2typelib2013-gtk_0907.88 or something bonkers like that.

James