I've added a deb package to the github release page for pxv: https://github.com/linsomniac/pxv/releases
Sean On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 8:41 AM Sean Reifschneider <[email protected]> wrote: > Depending on the level of compatability you want, "pxv" may be enough for > you. https://github.com/linsomniac/pxv > > pxv is a xv-inspired image viewer that I built to take advantage of my xv > "muscle memory" but without having to mess with the issues compiling the > real xv. I'm a huge xv fan (back in the day I sent John >$30K in licensing > fees), but these days I'm not doing enough image work that I use it often > enough between compiles. pxv is meant to be something that's easier to > deal with. > > Lots of options for running it: > > uvx --from git+https://github.com/linsomniac/pxv pxv photo.jpg > pip install pxv > uv pip install pxv > > RIP John Bradley > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 5:55 AM Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [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... >> >>
