poppler and xpdf
Stefan Bruda
bruda at cs.ubishops.ca
Mon Oct 1 09:46:40 PDT 2007
Yves de Champlain wrote:
>
>> Poppler and xpdf conflict with each other in some executable names.
>>
>> < godel:~ > port activate poppler @0.6_0
>> ---> Activating poppler 0.6_0
>> Error: port activate failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/pdffonts
>> is being used by the active xpdf port. Please deactivate this
>> port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
>>
>> However, evince and gimp2 depend on poppler (so it needs to be there)
>> and I use xpdf all the time (so I need it). How does one get around
>> this problem?
>
> xpdf has a variant for this case
>
> port install xpdf +with_poppler
Thank you very much, that does it nicely.
Stefan
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