xpdf as an alternative to Acrobat Reader

[Harold L Hunt II]

You need to install "lesstif" and the XFree86-lib-compat packages, if 
they are not already installed.

Harold

fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> There's always Acrobat Reader for viewing .pdf files, but I just tried
> looking at xpdf from ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-2.02pl1.tar.gz. As
> far as it goes, it installs in Cygwin very nicely but at the end of the
> configure stage it says
> 
>     configure: WARNING: Couldn't find X / Motif
>     you will be able to compile
>     pdftops, pdftotext, pdfinfo, pdffonts, and pdfimages
>     but not xpdf
> 
> and indeed at the end of make install there they all are, but not xpdf. Has
> anybody succeeded in a successful install and is it easy to explain how?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Fergus
>