Hello these days I have been working on getting gnome dependencies out of evince so xubuntu has a nice document viewer. The only libs left are libgnomeprintXX since those are not really gnome libs, they do not bring in anything else. The result is a bunch of very ugly hacks (ifdefs, deleted code, some dubious new code) which nevertheless make a buildable executable which resembles the original :) Things which work in the original and not in this one: the help menu, gconf settings (I am not sure what evince stored in gconf but at least the max number of recent documents was there), DnD, external URI-s in documents. Some things may not work which I overlooked but so far it seems it handles the same documents as evince and in the same way - well the core doc viewing and GUI were not touched at all, that's why. I still have polishing to do, and I'll make an ubuntu package soon, but if there are eager testers around who want to build from source till then - great! I do not have webspace right now to publish the darcs archive of it so here's a gzipped patch attached. to build it you have to have the following libs installed libmagic-dev, libgnomeprint2.2-dev,libgnomeprintui2.2-dev,libglade2-dev,libgtk2.0-dev,libtiff4-dev, maybe even more the safest is to just do apt-get build-dep evince even if that will bring in some gnome libs which will bring in the real evinces buid dependencies and add libmagic-dev 0) gunzip attachement 1) Take the original source from here <a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/evince/evince_0.4.0.orig.tar.gz">http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/evince/evince_0.4.0.orig.tar.gz</a> 2) uncompress it, cd evince-0.4.0 3) patch -p1 <,l.diff 4)autoconf 5) ./configure --prefix=/your/home/whatever/bin --disable-scrollkeeper 6)make && make install now you should have an evince binary in the above path thanks Jani PS: hmm, maybe I should've just made a .deb