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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:27:14
Message-Id: yu9zlhgjszx.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs by Grant
1 At Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:09:32 -0800 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 > For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different
4 > versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says:
5 >
6 > "File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported"
7 >
8 > epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels
9 > from usps.com. Does anyone have any ideas on getting evince back to
10 > normal? I did try deleting .gnome2/evince.
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12 Have you recently emerged evince/poppler/poppler-bindings ?
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14 To test if perhaps the version on the gentoo servers is currently bad
15 I just now remerged them and did the suggested revdep-rebuild, which as
16 expected rebuilt nothing. Everything worked fine; in particular,
17 evince file.pdf
18 worked.
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20 Perhaps you should remerge them in case one of yours is corrupted.
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22 Here is the beginning of my emerge showing the use flags
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24 allan gottlieb # emerge evince poppler poppler-bindings
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26 These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
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28 Calculating dependencies... done!
29 [ebuild R ] app-text/evince-2.22.2-r1 USE="dbus doc gnome gnome-keyring tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -t1lib" 1,592 kB
30 [ebuild R ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7 USE="cairo gtk -qt3 -qt4 -test" 1,436 kB
31 [ebuild R ] app-text/poppler-0.8.7 USE="jpeg zlib -cjk" 0 kB
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33 Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 3,027 kB
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35 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
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37 Good luck!
38
39 allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>