On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:05 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:14 -0600, Richard Humphrey wrote: > > > >>According to my Mac source, it is a pict file and the only thing he > >>knows willopen it is Photoshop. > > > > > > The netpbm-progs package contains a program picttoppm that will convert > > a pict file to a portable pixmap, which in turn can be converted into > > many different formats. See "man picttoppm" for details. > > > > Paul. > > Thank you very much Richard and Paul! > > I have netpbm-progs installed, but picttoppm is missing. The man page > is there, but the binary picttoppm is missing. > I verified the rpm netpbm-progs-10.19-7.i386.rpm at > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ > and the binary is missing there too. > > So I went to the netpbm homepage > http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/ > and compiled it from source in order to get picttoppm. > Converting the screenshots worked and I can open them in GIMP! > > Thanks a lot again :-) I was going to raise a bug about the missing picttoppm binary in the netpbm-progs package but when I looked at the spec file and the patches for netpbm, I discovered that picttoppm was deliberately removed, apparently for security reasons. The patch netpbm-10.23-security.patch removes picttoppm from the list of programs to build in the Makefile, and adds the following line to the start of the picttoppm code: #error "Unfixable. Don't ship me" So instead I have raised a bug about the package containing a manpage for a program that is not shipped: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=146863 Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
