{"id":229,"date":"2007-02-08T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T10:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2007-02-08T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T18:18:33","slug":"working-evince-and-poppler-in-debian-etch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Working evince and poppler in Debian Etch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evince and poppler (the library used to render PDFs) are quite outdated in etch, and fail to display correctly a number of PDF files (including PDFs generated by latex-beamer). There’s a new poppler version (0.5.x, vs 0.4.5 in etch), but it bumps the soname, so it’s a no-go.<\/p>\n

Since I was particularly annoyed by this (I’m an evince fan), I looked at the issue, and found that entry in poppler’s changelog for version 0.5.1:<\/p>\n

2006-02-16  Albert Astals Cid\r\n\r\n        * qt4\/src\/Makefile.am:\r\n        * qt\/Makefile.am:\r\n        * poppler\/Makefile.am:\r\n        * glib\/Makefile.am: Update soname as we are not really compatible\r\n        anymore with previous releases that had soname 0.0.0<\/pre>\n
And I thought that maybe, the soname update was not totally justified. I modified the package in experimental (v.0.5.4) to remove the soname bump, and renamed the binary packages so it becomes a drop-in replace for the version in etch.<\/p>\n
It works fine for me with the version of evince in etch, and seems to fix at least #369164<\/a>, #409758<\/a>, and #410085<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Packages are available here<\/a>.<\/b> Of course, this is totally unsupported, and I have not done any careful testing. But it works for me until now<\/b>, and I’l update this entry if I discover some problems. Also, I don’t plan to maintain this on the long term, so beware of security bugs.<\/p>\n
Update :<\/b> This breaks tetex (see #356079<\/a>). Arg. I’ll have to use the experimental version…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Evince and poppler (the library used to render PDFs) are quite outdated in etch, and fail to display correctly a number of PDF files (including PDFs generated by latex-beamer). There’s a new poppler version (0.5.x, vs 0.4.5 in etch), but it bumps the soname, so it’s a no-go. Since I was particularly annoyed by this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debianubuntu","category-planetdebian","category-technology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}