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Tuxuser
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 Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:15 am Post subject: PDF Viewing Problems |
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Hi Folks
Did anybody succeed to install acroread? My problem is that my scanner (Canon Lide 50 used with the OS which must not be named) creates pdf files which the alternatives gv, xpdf or kghostview can not display.
Suggestins of other pdf viewer alternatives are welcome
Thanks
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kavau
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| worked just fine for me. |
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Tuxuser
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Here is what I get:
| Quote: | bash-2.05b# emerge acroread
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "acroread" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- app-text/acroread-5.08 (masked by: -* keyword)
- app-text/acroread-5.09 (masked by: -* keyword)
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. |
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himpierre
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:03 am Post subject: |
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@kavau You are at amd64 (64bit).
Acroread is not working at the moment. You can install 32bit chroot. This should work.
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Tuxuser
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Thanks
Indeed I'm in a 64 bit environment. Up to now I found to change into 32 bit chroot not very convenient as I read it from the technotes. That's why I'm looking for alternatives. However, maybe I should become friend with the thought to install a 32 bit chroot environment.  |
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himpierre
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: |
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Travis was kind enough to write a chroot-setup-script. Here is his email from gentoo-amd64 Mailing list.
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Hey guys, I finally got around to poking at that gentoo chroot handling
tool. It's mostly complete (i think), though the help has a few typos
and was put there in a hurry (adding --help is a PITA). The script can
be found at http://dev.gentoo.org/~lv/setup-gentoo-chroot
to download a stage, run the command:
setup-gentoo-chroot download
you can further customize your download like so:
setup-gentoo-chroot --arch x86 --subarch pentium4 --release 2004.2
--stage 3 --mirror http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
the stage file will be saved to your DISTDIR. if you dont have a DISTDIR
entry in make.conf, it'll be saved in /usr/portage/distfiles... i just
realised i forgot to add sanity checks for this, so make sure that
directory exists. ^^;
to unpack a chosen stage, run the command:
setup-gentoo-chroot unpack
the unpack command accepts the same options as download, and will even
attempt to download a stage if the chosen stage isnt found. the stage
will be unpacked to /mnt/gentoo-ARCH-RELEASE-chroot.
you can now add fstab entries for /proc, PORTDIR, and DISTDIR using the
commands:
setup-gentoo-chroot fstab
etc-update
if you need your fstab entries to have special options, you can run:
setup-gentoo-chroot --fstab-opts="users,noauto" fstab
you can also mount and unmount these entries using the commands:
setup-gentoo-chroot mount
setup-gentoo-chroot unmount
yaay, we now have an x86 chroot to play with and fstab entries that make
it easy to share /proc, the portage tree, and distfiles. so how about
managing that chroot and doing something useful with it?
lets change the password for root with:
setup-gentoo-chroot setpass
add another user with:
setup-gentoo-chroot adduser --user moo
setup-gentoo-chroot setpass --user moo
update resolv.conf and the portage tree:
setup-gentoo-chroot update-resolv-conf
setup-gentoo-chroot update-portage-tree
run an emerge world -uD:
setup-gentoo-chroot update-world
now that we have an updated chroot, lets start some services:
setup-gentoo-chroot start-service sshd
and the stop-service command does what one expects 
if you want to do something more specific that the script doesnt handle,
you can chroot into your chosen chroot with:
setup-gentoo-chroot chroot
and if you even get tired of a particular chroot:
setup-gentoo-chroot remove
so, to quickly set up an x86 chroot and ssh in as a user:
setup-gentoo-chroot --arch=x86 --subarch=pentium4 download unpack fstab
mount update-resolv-conf start-service sshd
setup-gentoo-chroot --user moo adduser setpass
ssh -X moo@localhost
let me know if something is icky or if there are features i should add
that i forgot about (preferably with a patch if possible). there are a
few bugs i need to fix already, for example there are no subarch
stage1s, so that probably wont work... i only tested using stage3. the
current todo list, in no particular order, is:
ignore subarch for stage1
add support for hardened x86 stages
add sanity check for distdir
add support for running bootstrap, emerge system, and emerge world -e
add support for switching profiles
i'm out of motivated hack mode, easily distracted, and have a quite
random todo list for other things... so i might not update the script
-soon-. but like i said earlier, it's mostly complete and usable as is.
(hey, it's good to know one's flaws)
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Pythagoras1
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: PDF Viewing Problems |
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| Tuxuser wrote: | Hi Folks
Did anybody succeed to install acroread? My problem is that my scanner (Canon Lide 50 used with the OS which must not be named) creates pdf files which the alternatives gv, xpdf or kghostview can not display.
Suggestins of other pdf viewer alternatives are welcome
Thanks
Tuxuser |
could you please send some of your non-working pdf files to the ghostscript newsgroup or mailing list? with some information what doesn't work and which software did create the files.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html |
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Tuxuser
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Pythagoras1
Would you mind me if I send a testpage to you for forward it because you seem much more familiar in this newsgroup?
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Pythagoras1
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| i'm not really familiar to this newsgroup and you are familiar to the software which created this file. so it seems to be the best if you get in contact with the developers. but in doubt i could do this for you if you provide me with some informations about the software which creates the pdfs. |
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Tuxuser
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Location: Solingen / Germany
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject: Bug is reported |
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I reported the bug at the KDE page for kghostview and kpdf and send a note to the xpdf developer.
Keeping my fingers cross. |
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