Hello * On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:57:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to recall that the xv package (graphics viewer / editor) by John > Bradley was formerly included in an earlier distribution (potato, maybe?). > It doesn't seem to be in the current distributions. Does anyone know if > it is available any longer as a debian package? Maybe I'm not looking in > the right place. > > Thanks > Jerry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jerry Bash > ------------------------------------------------------------------- >
xv is no longer in Debian, but it was once upon a time in slink non-free. This means you can still get it and install it in a Debian way. What you do is put the sources list for the slink archive in /etc/apt/sources.list with these lines # Slink (2.1) deb ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ slink contrib main non-free deb-src ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ slink contrib main non-free Then you pin slink to a low number so that a package only gets installed from Slink if it is in no newer version of Debian. Here are the contents of my /etc/apt/preferences file which runs stable (Woody) but straddles all of Debian from Hamm through to Sid. Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-priority: 80 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-priority: 90 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release v=2.2* Pin-priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release v=2.1* Pin-priority: 40 Package: * Pin: release v=2.0* Pin-priority: 30 At this point, after you run an update you find that the packages xv and xv-doc are available and can be installed. I have these packages running here and this is the status output: apt-cache policy xv xv: Installed: 3.10a-20 Candidate: 3.10a-20 Version Table: *** 3.10a-20 0 500 ftp://archive.debian.org slink/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.10a-16 0 500 ftp://archive.debian.org hamm/non-free Packages apt-cache policy xv-doc xv-doc: Installed: 3.10a-25 Candidate: 3.10a-25 Version Table: *** 3.10a-25 0 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.10a-20 0 500 ftp://archive.debian.org slink/non-free Packages The main catch I have come across so far is that when you run dselect, you have to be watchful when you select packages to check where they are coming from. You probably wouldnt want to install a base package that comes from Hamm into a stable Woody system. Hope this helps. Cheers Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
