xpdf for 20.10?

[Bret Busby]

On 7/7/21 2:01 am, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 7/7/21 1:48 am, Robert Heller wrote:
>> xpdf seems to be unavailable for 20.10 (at least in the standard repos):
>>
>> ub202164:~> sudo apt install xpdf
>> [sudo] password for heller:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Package xpdf is not available, but is referred to by another package.
>> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>> is only available from another source
>>
>> E: Package 'xpdf' has no installation candidate
>>
>> How does one view a PDF file in 20.10?
>>
> 
> Have you tried the evince document viewer?
> 
> I now use the MATE atril document viewer, as, with the trends in Linux 
> software, the evince document viewer has done away with the menu bar in 
> 21.04, but, at present, the menu bar is still available in the atril 
> document viewer.
> 
> Anyway, if you haven't already, I suggest that you try the evince 
> document viewer.
> 


Also, if you insist on using xpdf (I do not mean anything derogatory in 
that - I mean if you want to use xpdf and only xpdf), you might want to 
visit
https://www.xpdfreader.com/
which I found by simply doing a google search on xpdf (to  find its 
status - I used to use xpdf, for its simplicity, before I started using 
the evince document viewer).

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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