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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

Greetings everybody, this is my first post.

I have installed arch with xfce in a somewhat old compaq laptop (presario 700)
and it works like charm.
Though, I definitely want kdvi and kpdf and after 1 hour of googling I can't find
no such package! I fount a guy telling that kdvi is included in the kdegraphics package but that's 100+ MB
so there MUST be another way..
Before you tell me about alternatives, I declare I am a texlive+kile+kdvi
addicted! 

Please, any help?! I had this great idea to switch to a new OS (although it's great) right before my
courses begin and I will need tex soon!

Thank you very much in advance and greetings again.

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

kpdf was part of KDE3. Use okular (included in kdegraphics of KDE4) instead.

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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

Thanks! Let me try it and I'll come back with feedback

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

I can't find no okular package..
Also when I try to install kdegraphics It gives me a bunch of other stuff but no "okular" is listed there..

I also wonder if this okular thing works well with kile, as kdvi did..

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

I did install kdegraphics incl. okular.

Now, I was googling all morning about that issue and I found out that okular is (for the moment) horrible for TeXing (it lacks forwrd and inverse searching) and it is way too heavy for my laptop..
Found many people with the same problem..

I desperately need my good old dvi.. Isn't there a way to just install kdvi and kpdf?
Any help would be really appreciated..

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

You can allways compile yourself.

Last edited by Pierre (2008-09-07 18:19:30)

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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

Oh, jeez, I am really not much into this..
Never done it, always used package managers.
So its 100% sure there is no pacman package for this?

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

Any other thoughts? Is compiling the only way?
There should be some package somewhere, right?!
If not, could you please give some info about compiling kdvi?
I am a newbie when it comes to those things..

Last edited by geo909 (2008-09-08 01:17:42)

ScriptDevil

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

Well. Xdvi is there for you. KDvi is not going to be of any use since it will need recompiling of a whole bunch of qt3 and kde3lib deps which you otherwise dont need

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Garns

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Registered: 2008-05-28

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

Using kdemod-legacy should work, you may get some conflicts with the vanilla kdelibs when installing.
Not sure which package kpdf/kdvi are in.

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

Using kdemod-legacy should work, you may get some conflicts with the vanilla kdelibs when installing.
Not sure which package kpdf/kdvi are in.

After you add the kdemod-legacy repo in your /etc/pacman.conf the package can be installed by

pacman -Sy kdemod3-kdegraphics-kpdf

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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

YES!! I finaly have kdvi!
Thank you sooo much guys, effective TeXing is very important to me now.. 

According your link,
I uninstalled every kde application (reinstalled them later),
then added the kdemod-legacy repository and did

pacman -Sy kdemod3-kdegraphics-kdvi

which installed my good old kdvi in my system..

Thank you very much again for your time!

Btw is it possible that I will have any problem with other kde applications?
Should I avoid using kde4 apps?
I am not familiar with the kde3/kde4 conflicts in arch..

Last edited by geo909 (2008-09-09 03:02:34)

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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Re: No kdvi/kpdf for archlinux?

EDIT!

OMG, nothing works.
After a reboot, there's no kile, no kdvi, no kpdf!
When I try to start any of them on the terminal, there is no such entry as
'kile', 'kdvi', 'kpdf' nor is an entry on the xfce menu..
Where did they go?! They were running before!
When I try to install them again, it installs them but again, no entries..

Edit: Now that I am thinking about it, it must have been my fault:
I am not sure, but maybe I tried to install kpdf after I reinstalled
kile. In the link it says I should remove any kde packages before I proceed
installing from the legacy repository.. I am not sure If I downloaded it afterwards..

Now, even If I uninstall every kde app and library from the system and
reinstall a kde app, I can't run it, although pacman sees the package as installed..

Any ideas please?!

Last edited by geo909 (2008-09-09 04:05:47)