Re: Redhat Fig2Dev and Alpha

Ryan Kirkpatrick (rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu)
Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:51:11 -0600 =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?(=01?=)


On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Erik Troan wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> > I have a quick question.... Where I can I find fig2dev for alpha?
> > I installed the xfig rpm from my red hat installation disk onto my alpha,
> > but there was no program fig2dev included. I found a new version of the
> > rpm on sunsite, but the rpm install program just gives me a cryptic error
> > of "can't install rpm" when I try and install it or upgrade the old
> > package. I also tried getting the sources to xfig and compiling them to
> > get fig2dev, but that would not easily compile.
>
> Install transfig.

Ahh... I thought it might be something simple and stupid like
that. Though the description for transfig stated it was converting
graphics files to gif an such... fig2dev is a rather important program to
xfig, strange it should be stuck elsewhere.
Anyway, thanks for the help!

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