Re: xv (was Re: CD ripping)

[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