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bleaver

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Registered: 2016-12-05

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Zathura not displaying any documents

Zathura cannot display any documents. When I try to run "zathura file.pdf", I get the following:

  error: could not open plugin directory: /usr/lib/zathura
  error: Unknown file type: 'application/pdf'

How can I fix this?

Last edited by bleaver (2016-12-11 23:17:19)

null

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 398

Re: Zathura not displaying any documents

Do you have zathura-pdf-mupdf or zathura-pdf-poppler installed?

Zathura is a document viewer that needs a plugin for each document type to be able to display them.

bleaver

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Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 18

Re: Zathura not displaying any documents

Thank you, I did not know this.

bleaver

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Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 18

Re: Zathura not displaying any documents

I have installed the pdf plugin, but I am unable to install the epub plugin.

Aur Targets    (1): zathura-epub-git
 
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
]2;Building 1/1 zathura-epub-git==> Making package: zathura-epub-git 4a2e037-1 (Sun Dec 11 07:19:44 PST 2016)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating zathura-epub git repo...
Fetching origin
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    zathura-epub ... Skipped
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of zathura-epub git repo...
Reset branch 'makepkg'
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
/bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
make: execvp: pkg-config: Permission denied
epub build options:
CFLAGS  = -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -std=c99 -fPIC -pedantic -Wall -Wno-format-zero-length    
LDFLAGS = -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro
DFLAGS  = -g
CC      = cc
Makefile:23: *** "The minimum required version of zathura is 0.1.1".  Stop.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 
==> ERROR: the build failed
  -> Status
        failed (1): zathura-epub-git

Last edited by bleaver (2016-12-11 23:24:20)

null

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 398

Re: Zathura not displaying any documents

That's a different problem for which you should open a new thread in the AUR forum section. Also post the complete thing. Including your running commands. And before you want any help with a broken PKGBUILD check if there is some solution in the AUR comments and also check if the thing build without whatever AUR helper you using (aka just makepkg).