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 (Ubuntu 7.01).
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
chmod 755 debian/rules
apt-get install libc6-dev
apt-get install xlibs-dev
apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
apt-get install libtiff4-dev
apt-get install libpng12-dev
make
cp xv /usr/bin