OK, first of all, I don't run Ubuntu on my computer. I think Ubuntu
is lame in so many ways. To summarize, it is bloated and favors
being idiot-friendly instead of expert-friendly. How lame is an
operating system that doesn't come with libc headers?! They are
creating a developer/user separation of roles, which is is precisely
what makes other operating systems (closed ones) lame.
Anyway, I am using somebody else's computer that has Ubuntu installed
and it doesn't have the xv graphics editor. It only has bloated crap
that takes forever to do simple operations. So I wanted to install
xv. I tried to use Ubuntu's for-dummies package manager but it failed
to find an xv package. So I downloaded the xv source and tried to compile
it, only to find that the operating system does not come with support
for compiling C programs. Basic header files are not included in a
default Ubuntu install. You have to download some stuff
before you can compile anything. (Yes, this is almost surreal in its
lameness. At least you don't have to pay.) Anyway, I found a document
on the web that is kind of a xv Ubuntu howto. It
almost works, but not quite. So here are the steps that did work for
me (Originally for Ubuntu 7.01, updated Dec 12, 2010 based on
correspondence with Piotr Mitros).
sudo bash
cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/png-mng/xv-3.10a-jumbo-patches-20050501.tar.gz
wget http://bok.fas.harvard.edu/debian/xv/xv-3.10a-jumbo20050501-1.diff.gz
tar xvzf xv-3.10a.tar.gz
tar xvzf xv-3.10a-jumbo-patches-20050501.tar.gz
gzip -d xv-3.10a-jumbo20050501-1.diff.gz
cd xv-3.10a
patch -p1 < ../xv-3.10a-jumbo-fix-patch-20050410.txt
patch -p1 < ../xv-3.10a-jumbo-enh-patch-20050501.txt
patch -p1 < ../xv-3.10a-jumbo20050501-1.diff
apt-get install libxt-dev libc6-dev xlibs-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev libpng12-dev
make
cp xv /usr/local/bin