Re: how to have tiff support

Bob Schmertz wrote:

>>Hi. What do I have to do to get tiff support in gqview? Sorry for this
>>question but I'm really new at linux and I don't know where to look
>>what to do who I am and so on :)
> Re "who I am": if you have parents, maybe you can get a little
> information from them.  Also, consulting a local priest or shaman can
> sometimes be helpful, sometimes not.
My shaman... he was the one who told me not to trust my parents, nor the
priest, nor he himself, because "you should find yourself by yourself in
yourself".
"And if you just can't find yourself by yourself in yourself" - he said,
after a brief but seemingly troubled meditation - "know that the linux
operating system would possibly answer a 'whoami' question if kindly
asked - but before asking at least you should get to know it better than
I do, if you don't want to get a really laconic answer".

> Re TIFF support: what distro are you using?  I use Gentoo,
Me too.

> and I
> discovered that if I don't have "tiff" in my USE flags then none of my
> image programs get TIFF support.
Me too.

> But it's not gqview you have to
> recompile,
Yes, before posting the original message I tried recompiling it after
having added "tiff" to USE in /etc/make.conf, and yes it didn't work.

> it's gtk+ or gdkpixbuf or something.
Soon after posting the original message I searched on gentoo forums and
found that it's gtk+ you have to recompile (and that gdkpixbuf, whatever
it is :) , is now included in gtk+).
Now I have tiff support in gqview... but still I don't feel ready to ask
the big question... :)

Cheers and thanks


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