Re: [Pan-users] Re: Many Binaries Cannot Be Shown In Pan

[Travis]

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From: "Timothy J. Hamilton" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 3:42 PM
To: <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Many Binaries Cannot Be Shown In Pan

> On Sat January 2 2010 19:37:28 Scott Pettigrew wrote:
> > Wow, Travis, thanks for advancing the conversation and putting me in
> > my place.  At first I got really mad and wrote a much snarkier reply,
> > but thought better of it.  I hope you accept my apologies for my
> > previous transgressions.  I can only hope this message is correctly
> > formatted and will not further grump-ify you.
> >
> > I have now compiled the code from the github on two fairly fresh
> > Ubuntu systems, and have (I think) perfected the art of chasing down
> > the requisite programs & libraries.  The following is a complete list
> > of commands that I used to accomplish the build.  Note that I install
> > the package-maintainer's version of Pan so that I more easily get the
> > menu items, etc.
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get install pan git git-core gnome-common libgtk2.0-dev
> > libpcre3-dev libgmime-2.4-dev
> > $ cd ~
> > $ mkdir src
> > $ cd src
> > $ git clone git://github.com/lostcoder/pan2.git
> > $ cd pan2
> > $ sh ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/<MY USER NAME>
> > $ make
> > $ make install
> > $ cd /usr/bin
> > $ sudo mv pan pan.OLD
> > $ sudo cp /home/scottkuma/bin/pan .
> > $ sudo chown root: pan
> >
> > I've documented this along with some explanation of why I did certain
> > commands at my blog:  http://scottkuma.net
> >
> > I hope this helps some folks who love the program as much as I do, and
> > who felt as lost as I did when it didn't work out of the box in Karmic
> > Koala!!
> >
> >
> > <<SNIP>>
> >
> > > HTML formatted messages are frowned upon here.
> > > --
> > > Travis in Shoreline Washington
> >
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>
> Travis,
>
> Thank you, thank you. I was hoping somebody would post idiot-friendly
> instructions. I followed your directions and VOILA!!! I have a pan
> installation that behaves itself.
>
> FWIW, Pan as it is packaged for Suse 11.2 displays multipart jpegs just 
> fine.
>
> I was hoping Ubuntu would package a version in Lucid Lynx that would 
> display
> multipart jpegs correctly. Maybe if the Ubuntu users on this list would 
> post
> bug reports & comments in the forums, Lucid would be released with a 
> better
> version.

You should thank Scott Pettigrew not me.
I'm a Windows guy.
--
Travis in Shoreline Washington