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I have been trying to install Debian (and Mint) on an HP Pavilion Desktop.
The installation goes smoothly until "Grub" begins to install.  At that
point the entire system freezes.  I have tried the install multiple times
with the same result each time.  Has anyone else had a similar problem and
if so what did you do to work around it?  Thanks for any help you can
provide.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:53 AM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:39:29AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > In Debian I think that xv fell by the wayside between woody and sarge.
> > It seemed to get stuck at 3.10a. IIRC it was always in non-free
> > because of its licence, so I can only check via my   dpkg -l
> > listings. So I haven't used it for 15 years, moving on to xzgv.
> > xv is really an editor, isn't it?
>
> It was a pretty ubiquitous image display/modification tool in
> previous decades.  So much so, that I still use it today -- of course,
> not from an official Debian package, as those stopped being produced
> ages ago.  But it's still possible to compile it, with a bit of extra
> flaming-hoop-jumping.
>
> wooledg:~$ dpkg -s xv | grep Depends
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libpng12-0 (>=
> 1.2.13-4), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
>
> The flaming-est hoop here is the PNG library, because someone decided
> that the PNG library should completely break compatibility, not just at
> the ABI level, but at the API level, a few years ago.
>
> You can get libpng12* packages from older Debian releases.  Some assembly
> required.
>
>

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  Re: *nix deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-02-18 07:50 +0100
  Re: *nix David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-02-18 17:50 +0100
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