How to get rid of XPDF [SOLVED]

cyberjun · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 293

Hi,
Why am I seeing this? I don't have xpdf installed. I don't have it in my world file. Hell I don't even have it in my use flags. I have uninstalled ggv and gpdf as well. I want to get rid of this xpdf since all of it can be taken care of with evince and poppler.

any suggestions?

thanks.

--cyberjun

UncleOwen · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:58 am Post subject:

Use emerge --tree to see what pulls xpdf in.

cyberjun · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 293

Hi,
Thanks for the hint. It appears, it is CUPS. So does it mean I can't have both printing and evince at the same time? since poppler and xpdf are at loggerheads.

--cyberjun

linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki

Just unmerge the xpdf first and then try to update again.

cyberjun · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 293

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. However, if you would have read my post thoroughly, you would have noticed that xpdf appears with 'N' against it, which means that it is not installed at present. CUPS is the package which needs xpdf. Hence I don't know what to do as I need printing support as well as evince.

cheers,

--cyberjun

linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki

Did you try it ?

Ok, I don't know what is evince but I think that xpdf is deprecated and poppler is providing it's functionality, and it fixed this same blocking problem with me (xpdf is blocking poppler, not opposite)

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cyberjun · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 293

Hi,
evince is the document viewer for gnome. It shows pdf docs. I depends on poppler. Here is the output of the commands:

cyberjun · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 293

Hi,
Upgrade to cups-1.1.23-r7 solves the problem. Thanks for all the help.

--cyberjun

DerCorny · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:33 am Post subject:

cyberjun, what arch are you on?
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cyberjun · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 293

Hi,
I am on x86.

cheers,
--cyberjun

pharaoh · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject:

Worked for me as well, thanks!
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entropyv · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Cincinnati

What if I don't want to run X at all? Why does cups need xpdf?
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calr0x · Apprentice Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 244