netpbm - A huge pile of graphics conversion utilities (formerly pbmplus) HOWTO

ChangeLog


2009/03/13	- 10.26.54 -> 10.26.60 (super-stable)
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.2, removed older
		  than 11.0
		- Use downloads.sf.net instead of download.sf.net
2008/05/26	- 10.26.41 -> 10.26.54 (super-stable)
Mar 16, 2007	- 10.26.39 -> 10.26.41 (super-stable)
Feb 13, 2007	- 10.26.31 -> 10.26.39 (super-stable)
		- 10.35 -> 10.37.02 (advanced)
		- Note about libvga.so location in advanced
		- Updated note for Slackware 11.0
Sep 18, 2006	- 10.34 (latest) -> 10.35 via Subversion (advanced)
		- Renamed 'stable' to 'super-stable'
Sep 15, 2006	- 10.26.30 -> 10.26.31 (stable)
		- 10.33 -> 10.34 (latest)
Aug 8, 2006	- 10.26.29 -> 10.26.30 (stable)
Jun 1, 2006	- 10.26.23 -> 10.26.29 (stable)
		- 10.31 -> 10.33 (latest)
Jan 24, 2006	- 10.26.22 -> 10.26.23 (stable)
		- Only run removepkg when it exists
Jan 10, 2006	- 10.30 -> 10.31 (latest)
		- 10.26.20 -> 10.26.22 (stable)
Dec 16, 2005	- 10.26.18 -> 10.26.20 (stable)
Nov 11, 2005	- 10.29 -> 10.30 (latest)
		- 10.26.15 -> 10.26.18 (stable)
		- Also removepkg 'netpbm'
		- Added note about versions that are included in Slackware
Sep 19, 2005	- 10.26.14 -> 10.26.15 (stable)
Sep 12, 2005	- 10.26.12 -> 10.26.14 (stable)
		- 10.28 -> 10.29 (latest)
Jul 22, 2005	- 10.26.11 -> 10.26.12 (stable)
Jun 8, 2005	- Only run chown root:root if $UID = 0
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- 10.26.7 -> 10.26.11 (stable)
		- 10.27 -> 10.28 (latest)
		- Removed note about svgalib, that was a year and a half ago
Mar 31, 2005	- 10.26.6 -> 10.26.7 (stable)
		- 10.26 -> 10.27 (latest)
		- root.root -> root:root
Mar 20, 2005	- 10.26.5 -> 10.26.6 (stable)
Mar 8, 2005	- 10.26.3 -> 10.26.5 (stable)
Feb 16, 2005	- 10.26.1 -> 10.26.3 (stable)
Jan 12, 2005	- 10.18.18 -> 10.26.1
		  10.26.1 was released as the latest 'stable' version
		- Removed the note about pm_gamma.h (see Apr 14 below)
Jan 5, 2005	- 10.18.17 -> 10.18.18 (stable)
		- 10.25 -> 10.26 (latest)
Dec 21, 2004	- 10.24 -> 10.25 (latest)
		- 10.18.15 -> 10.18.17 (stable)
Sep 1, 2004	- 10.22 -> 10.24 (latest)
		- 10.18.13 -> 10.18.15 (stable)
Jun 4, 2004	- 10.18.12 -> 10.18.13 (stable)
May 5, 2004	- 10.21 -> 10.22 (latest)
Apr 14, 2004	- 10.18.11 -> 10.18.12 (stable)
		  (this version doesn't try to install pm_gamma.h)
		- Fixed a typo in teh 10.21 part (a backtick that was
		  mangled in a cut-and-paste)
Apr 6, 2004	- Updated note about pm_gamma.h for the 10.18.11 version
Apr 5, 2004	- 10.18.10 -> 10.18.11 (stable)
		- 10.20 -> 10.21 (latest)
Mar 22, 2004	- 10.18.9 -> 10.18.10 (stable)
Mar 10, 2004	- 10.18.8 -> 10.18.9 (stable)
Feb 19, 2004	- 10.18.7 -> 10.18.8 (stable)
Feb 3, 2004	- 10.19 -> 10.20 (latest)
		- 10.18.6 -> 10.18.7 (stable)
		- Run ldconfig even if /usr/local/netpbm/lib was already set
		  in /etc/ld.so.conf
Jan 16, 2004	- 10.18.4 (stable) -> 10.19 (latest)
		- 10.11.15 (previous series stable) -> 10.18.6 (stable)
		- Updated notes about svgalib
		- Took out using patches to make configure non-interactive,
		  the current version changes too much to keep doing that
		  (and update this more than once a year &lt;g&gt;)
Dec 19, 2003	- 10.18.2 -> 10.18.4
Nov 11, 2003	- 10.11.13 -> 10.11.15
		- The 10.18.x series is now considered the stable series
		- 10.18 -> 10.18.2
		- Updated the part that updates PATH and MANPATH to only do
		  it if they're not already in there
Sep 30, 2003	- Updated link to espgs from cups howto to new espgs howto
Sep 23, 2003	- 10.11.12 -> 10.11.13 (stable)
		- 10.17 -> 10.18 (latest)
Sep 4, 2003	- 10.11.11 -> 10.11.12 (stable)
		- Changed the svgalib link from it's home page to my howto
Aug 14, 2003	- 10.11.10 -> 10.11.11 (stable)
Aug 7, 2003	- Added a link to the ghostscript homepage and to my cups
		  howto, which has espgs (the ghostscript that I use)
		- A few little modernizations
Jul 30, 2003	- 10.15 -> 10.17 (latest)
		- 10.11.9 -> 10.11.10 (stable)
		- Updated the post installation part to use /etc/profile.d
		  for setting PATH and MANPATH directories
		- Removed the auto-build instructions for the 'latest'
		  version because they change so frequently
Jul 10, 2003	- Updated libjpeg link to point to my howto
May 28, 2003	- 10.11.7 -> 10.11.9 (latest stable)
		- Changed download URL to osdn.dl.sourceforge.net, unc
		  doesn't seem to have it yet
Apr 29, 2003	- 10.14 -> 10.15
		- Added a note about /etc/profile.d
Mar 28, 2003	- Added section for the 10.11.7 (stable) version.
		  I use 10.14, but if you use these utils for something
		  mission critical you may want to go with 10.11.7
		- Added cleanup of previously installed libnetpbm shared
		  libraries
		- Added link to online docs
		- Modernized the howto
		- Now installs it into /usr/local/netpbm instead of /usr/local
		- Replaced use of the installnetpbm script with moving it
		  into place instead
Feb 22, 2003	- 10.13 -> 10.14
Jan 24, 2003	- 10.12 -> 10.13
		- Added a link to the libtiff howto
Dec 4, 2002	- 10.11 -> 10.12
		- Updated removal of old versions
Oct 18, 2002	- 10.9 -> 10.11
		- Added links to libpng and zlib howtos
Sep 27, 2002	- 10.8 -> 10.9
Sep 6, 2002	- 10.6 -> 10.8
		- Added mkdir -p /usr/man/web so the symlink will work in
		  the installation script
Aug 4, 2002	- First entry

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