On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 25Nov2011 20:28, Michael Hennebry
<hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
| Unable to figure out how to do what I wanted in gimp,
| I went looking for pnmcrop.
| I had gimp out because I hadn't been able to find pnmtops.
| Cropping stumped me, so I went looking again.
| Eventually I figured out that I didn't have the right package installed.
| yum provides told me netpbm.
| yum install netpbm ran to completion without complaint,
| but I still don't have any netpbm tools.
| I even did a find from / as root.
| Not there.
| What is going on and how do I fix it?
|
| I'm running FC14.
Hmm. I have an FC12 box here where pnmtops comes from "netpbm-progs".
"yum info netpbm" and "yum info netpbm-progs" says the former is the
library and the latter a bunch of scripts built on it.
Arrrg.
I knew that and then promptly forgot it.
Wait a sec while I find another hat, the one with my head in it.
Thanks.
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily