Bug#768475: evince: segfault on trying to open a pdf

[Boruch Baum]

On 11/08/2014 06:51 PM, Lennert Van Alboom wrote:
> I think you just hit bull's eye there. This was what I tested with:
> 
> [alver at Crusoe ~]$ dpkg -l *poppler* | grep ^ii
> ii  libpoppler-glib8:amd64 0.26.5-2     amd64        PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library)
> ii  libpoppler46:amd64     0.26.5-1     amd64        PDF rendering library
> ii  poppler-data           0.4.7-1      all          encoding data for the poppler PDF rendering library
> ii  poppler-utils          0.26.5-2     amd64        PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
> 
> Do note the slight version difference between libpoppler46:amd64 and
> libpoppler-glib8:amd64.
> 
> When installing libpoppler-dev as you requested, it pulled in
> libpoppler46:amd64 0.26.5-2, and lo and behold, evince opens PDFs again. So
> something in the tiny versions caused it, and somehow the version didn't get up
> to my workstation until just now.
> 
Thanks, Lenaert.

What I tried was just to see if 'apt-get install libpoppler46' would be
enough to sync up the versions. It was. And now evince seems to function.

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