Re: xpdf situation with Ubuntu?

[David Kastrup]

James <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

Wrong link.

> 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.

Uh, sorry for that.

> I don't have the space cycles at the moment to work out why

Good!  Or I'd feel even worse about wasted work.

The thing to use is the ppa he mentioned.

That would be something like

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mitya57/ppa
sudo apt-get install xpdf

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David Kastrup