On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
Hi Jim,
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Jim wrote:
Hi Gianluca,
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 11:41 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Jim wrote:
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 09:56 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24941
This suggests that ghostscript is your problem. Did you try copying
that from an old system and putting it somewhere in your $PATH before
the system ghostscript (on your updated system)?
If that doesn't help, I guess you are stuck with okular. As I think I
said, it seems as fast as xdvi on my system. If yours is noticeably
slower I wonder what strange things are happening on your system.
(Assuming you aren't using some very old, slow computer.)
No, okular is not slow on my system. I never implied that.
Sorry, when you said "I can use okular to display the .dvi document,
but I miss how fast xdvi is." I took it to mean that you thought
okular was slow.
That's OK.
I just think that xdvi is generally more lightweight than okular,
but okular runs well. So okular is an option if I can't figure out
ghostscript.
It is always nice to have a Plan B.
What exactly would I copy of ghostscript from the older system? In a
OpenSUSE 13.2 installation I have for example:
/usr/lib64/ghostscript/9.15/X11.so
Would that be enough?
I'd guess not. That library provides gs the ability to output to X11
devices, and (in my tests) it is needed to display .eps images in
xdvi, but I speculate you need the ghostscript executable (which is
/usr/bin/gs on my system). If you copy that over from your old system
to your new system, don't forget it needs to be found before the
system one vis-a-vis your $PATH setting.
My version of gs has the path name for that directory hard-coded into
the executable. (On my system the path name for ghostscript's X11.so
library is '/usr/lib64/ghostscript/9.55.0', but on your system that
will be something different.)
Consequently, if you try copying the gs from your old system to your
new one, and they are different versions of gs (which is presumably
the case) you will have to create the correctly-named directory on
your new system and put the library in that directory.
With luck, the old version of gs will play nicely with the
(presumably) newer versions of all the libraries on your new system.
If it doesn't, you can go deeper down the rabbit hole in a number of
ways, but at that point you might want to accept defeat and use
okular. (I could suggest some ways to proceed, but I really doubt you
will find the spending of the required time productive. Much better
to get on with blood clotting research. My vet tells me dog blood
clots many times faster than human blood, but I didn't have the
presence of mind to ask her if she knew why that is so. Maybe you
know.)
Thanks for all your suggestions and help. The alternative could also be to
install xdvi from the OpenSUSE 15.4 release (assuming it does not depend on
updating other packages as well). As to why dogs clot more easily, I am not
able to verify that.
I meant to say "I don't have an explanation", not that I can't verify it.
It would be interesting to know why.
It could have several reasons, like the presence of more coagulation
proteins or blood platelets. It makes me think about salamanders (the
OpenSUSE logo), which have lower blood pressure and hence do not need to
form scar tissue (as opposed to larger vertebrates) and that allows them
to regrow a limb.
Gianluca
I also realized that my subject line should have read "OpenSUSE 15.2", not
15.3, but that may not be as relevant now.
Only, I suppose, if you were submitting a bug report or talking to
another OpenSUSE person about this issue.
Jim
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