Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

2020-11-08 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 8 November 2020 16:27:38 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > long time. Out of curiosity, try > > sudo apt-show-versions -a netpbm > sudo apt-show-versions -a netpbm-free terry@OptiPlex:~$ sudo apt-show-versions -a netpbm netpbm:amd64 2:10.90.00-ppa install ok installed netpbm:amd64 2

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

2020-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > $ apt-show-versions netpbm > netpbm:amd64/groovy 2:10.0-15.3build1 uptodate > netpbm:i386 not installed > $ apt-show-versions netpbm-free > netpbm-free not installed (not available) Oh, apt-show-versions(1) talks about a cache. I did say it had been a long time. Out of curiosity, tr

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

2020-11-08 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 8 November 2020 15:54:01 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > and see if they list the PPA's version No they don't: terry@OptiPlex:~$ apt-show-versions netpbm netpbm:amd64/groovy 2:10.0-15.3build1 uptodate netpbm:i386 not installed terry@OptiPlex:~$ apt-show-versions netpbm-free netpbm-free not

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

2020-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > https://launchpad.net/~darkdragon-001/+archive/ubuntu/ppa > > I've successfully installed PPAs on Kubuntu on a number of occasions, > but I can't get that one to work. I run the commands listed at the > site and the PPAs duly appear in the list of software sources, but all > I get i

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

2020-11-08 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 8 November 2020 15:08:48 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > One of the people commenting in that bug report has made a PPA available > with a more modern netpbm package. > https://launchpad.net/~darkdragon-001/+archive/ubuntu/ppa > It's been a long time since I've tried PPAs on Ubuntu but that

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

2020-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > wget -q -O lenna.png \ > > > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Lenna_%28test_image%29.png > > > > w=128 h=128 # Desired size. > > pngtopnm lenna.png | > > pamscale -xyfit $w $h | > > pnmpad -w $w -h $h | > > pnmremap -mapfile=<(pamseq 1

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

2020-11-08 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 16:08:13 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Whilst all this clicking means you're learning Gimp, and it could > instead be coded in Python using the Python Imaging Library we keep > referring to, there's also Netpbm from the shell. > > wget -q -O lenna.png \ > https: