On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > So just for curiosity i tried what happens if i build xv on Debian 11. > > wget ftp://ftp.trilon.com/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz > tar xzf xv-3.10a.tar.gz > cd xv-3.10a > view INSTALL
Debian used to include xv, with patches and PNG support. So that's what I use as my starting point. unicorn:~$ dpkg -l xv | tail -n1 ii xv 3.10a-20 amd64 An image viewer and manipulator for the X Window System. unicorn:~$ 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) Note that it needs the *old* PNG library (12), not the new one with the incompatible API (16). unicorn:~$ dpkg -l libpng\* | grep ^.i ii libpng-dev:amd64 1.6.37-3 amd64 PNG library - development (version 1.6) ii libpng-tools 1.6.37-3 amd64 PNG library - tools (version 1.6) ii libpng12-0:amd64 1.2.54-6 amd64 PNG library - runtime ii libpng16-16:amd64 1.6.37-3 amd64 PNG library - runtime (version 1.6) ii libpng16-16:i386 1.6.37-3 i386 PNG library - runtime (version 1.6) I'm not sure how difficult it would be to build this package on current stable Debian. I've still got my xv_3.10a-20_amd64.deb file (last built in 2015), so I just use that, and make sure the PNG dependency is met.
