qiv, bsetbg, and image viewing in general

**Feztaa** · 01-25-2002, 05:11 AM

I'm trying to compile qiv, but the compiled binary won't run at all.

For those that don't know, qiv is the Quick Image Viewer, and blackbox's "bsetbg" is essentially just a wrapper for it, written in bash.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I have to have installed beforehand, but this is the error i'm getting:

Code:

$qiv 1337.png
/convert: No such file or directory
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: 1337.png
All fallbacks failed

Anybody know what needs to be installed for qiv to work properly?

**civ1492** · 01-25-2002, 12:12 PM

hmm have you installed the png library ? .. just a quick guess

**Feztaa** · 01-25-2002, 06:15 PM

Yes I have, that was one of the first things I compiled.

The author of QIV is suggesting that I install imagemagick or something... he didn't seem very helpful... gah.

**Feztaa** · 01-26-2002, 04:14 AM

Ok, I've got this sorted:

First, I had to copy the png libs from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib, and then because I was having the same problems with jpegs, I had to compile the jpeg libs like this:

Code:

./compile --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
make
make install

the '--enable-shared' bit makes libjpeg install the actual libraries needed to run qiv. Without it, you just get a couple of binaries that have some nondescript use... Then once the actual libraries are installed, qiv works like a charm

01-26-2002, 07:04 AM

First, I had to copy the png libs from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib

u could've just added /usr/local/lib to ur /etc/ld.so.conf file, ran ldconfig as root and it would've found the libs

everytime u install libraries u HAVE to make sure that the path to the libraries is in /etc/ld.so.conf. and if u have to add a path to it u have to run ldconfig as root before it'll be updated.