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Thomas Templin Wrote: 
> On Friday 15 July 2005 15:34, Hubertus Hiden wrote:
> > >Opening this file with evince 0.3.2 (btw an excellent PDF viever
> > > IMO much better than x/g/k/pdf) works fine here.
> >
> > I've just tried to install evince...
> > Synaptic (I'm using Hoary) installs 0.1.9-0ubuntu1 and this
> > version shows exactly the same error as the other programs.
> 
> Yes, you're right. It uses an old poppler lib.
> 
> > And evince_0.3.2-0ubuntu1 can't be installed because of unmet
> > dependencies with libc6 libfontconfig and so on :-(. Is 0.3.2 for
> > Breezy ?
> 
> Yep, 0.3.2 is for breezy
> 
> Do you have a breezy repository in your sources list?
> If yes, there shouldn't be _unmet_ dependencies.
> Hhhm...
> 
> Using a breezy repository evince will get installed plus a couple of 
> depending deb's only.
> 
> (\ stands for linefeed)
> ---8y---
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted \ 
> universe multiverse
> ---8y---
> 
> I just installed evince 0.3.2 on a fresh installed hoary box using a 
> breezy repository.
> 
> Only this additional deb files where installed aside evince:
> 
> libcairo1
> libglib2.0-0
> libglib2.0-0-data
> libgnomecanvas2-0
> libgnomecanvas2-common
> libgnomeprint2.2-0
> libgnomeprint2.2-0-data
> libgnomeprintui2.2-0
> libkpathsea3
> libpuixman1
> libpoppler0c2
> libpoppler0c2-glib
> 
> It may be a good idea to 'activate' a breezy repository only for 
> this installation and 'deactivate' it afterwards to avoid an 
> unstable system due to (dist)upgrade.
> 
> Using breezy is not a good idea if you are no very experienced 
> GNU/Linux admin... ;-)
> 
> At least evince 0.3.2 is worth a try. (c:
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
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then a backport should be a big problem?


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