[email protected] wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 02:09:12 -0400, Lee wrote: >> and yet another FWIW: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software) >> While popular in the early 1990s ("XV is widely considered to be the >> preeminent image viewer for the X Window System"[2] >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)#cite_note-2>), ... >> >> I haven't found anything like that for Linux (& preferably Debian) > >xv was packaged in Debian, back in the late 1990s. You can still find >the old packages on <https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/xv/> for >example. > >You can still build xv from the old Debian source packages (e.g. ><https://snapshot.debian.org/package/xv/3.10a-20slink1/>), though >it's becoming more and more difficult over time. The main issue is >the PNG library, which has changed its API. If you're willing to >install the older libpng12-0 packages, then it can be built on a >modern(-ish) Debian system. Those packages (xv and libpng12-0) are no >longer maintained, so there could be bugs in them, possibly even >security bugs. Proceed at your own risk.
Even better, there is a new forked version of xv that's being maintained again \o/. https://github.com/jasper-software/xv.git -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...
