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diff --git a/buildtools/debian/README b/buildtools/debian/README index 7cefb249..3f74f494 100644 --- a/buildtools/debian/README +++ b/buildtools/debian/README @@ -37,17 +37,23 @@ To install Netpbm as a Debian package: PREREQUSISITES -------------- -The following information was taken from the Jessie version (Version 8) of -Debian, in March 2017. - -You don't actually need the current version of any of these. For example, -while we list package libjpeg62-dev, the package libjpeg8-dev works fine. +The following information was taken from the Stretch version (Version 9) of +Debian, in June 2019. Building -------- -You need the following Debian packages to build all of Netpbm. +You need the following Debian packages to build all of Netpbm. These +are in addition to what is in the base system. + +Build tools: + + gcc + make + flex + +Libraries to link with Netpbm: You could omit some of these and, in the Netpbm build configuration dialog, indicate you don't have them, and the build will simply omit some parts. @@ -56,20 +62,14 @@ will not build the 'pamx' program. libjpeg-dev libpng-dev - libtiff5-dev + libtiff-dev libx11-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev +Example: -In addition, you need the following build tools: - - make - gcc - flex - perl - pkg-config - + $ apt-get install gcc Running @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ be pretty obvious what the problem is when you need the prerequisite package and don't have it, so if you don't want to install a prerequisite, it would probably be fine to force install Netpbm, ignoring the prerequisites. +There is one part you cannot build with current Debian: 'ppmsvgalib'. That is +because Debian does not include the required libsvga library (the last version +that did was 7). + CONFLICTS WITH DEBIAN'S NETPBM ------------------------------ |