xpdf for 20.10?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 7 Jul 2021 02:09:16 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 7/7/21 2:01 am, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 7/7/21 1:48 am, Robert Heller wrote:
> >> xpdf seems to be unavailable for 20.10 (at least in the standard repos):
> >>
> >> ub202164:~> sudo apt install xpdf
> >> [sudo] password for heller:
> >> Reading package lists... Done
> >> Building dependency tree
> >> Reading state information... Done
> >> Package xpdf is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> >> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> >> is only available from another source
> >>
> >> E: Package 'xpdf' has no installation candidate
> >>
> >> How does one view a PDF file in 20.10?
> >>
> > 
> > Have you tried the evince document viewer?
> > 
> > I now use the MATE atril document viewer, as, with the trends in Linux 
> > software, the evince document viewer has done away with the menu bar in 
> > 21.04, but, at present, the menu bar is still available in the atril 
> > document viewer.
> > 
> > Anyway, if you haven't already, I suggest that you try the evince 
> > document viewer.
> > 
> 
> 
> Also, if you insist on using xpdf (I do not mean anything derogatory in 
> that - I mean if you want to use xpdf and only xpdf), you might want to 
> visit
> https://www.xpdfreader.com/

Arg... The binary on the xpdfreader site does not run on 20.10 -- wrong
version of the icui18n library (xpdf wants 56, but 20.10 has 67 installed).

I guess I just won't be able to read pdfs on that VM...  Inconvientent, but 
not fatal...  Sigh...

> which I found by simply doing a google search on xpdf (to  find its 
> status - I used to use xpdf, for its simplicity, before I started using 
> the evince document viewer).
> 

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