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[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:25:44 +0100, Javier Arantegui wrote:

> It seems that the lack of netpbm in many systems is one of the most
> common problems for many beginners. I wonder if netpbm (and the rest of
> converters) could be a dependency instead of a recommended package (at
> least in Ubuntu). Almost everybody will need it some day and it is quite
> unconvinient to find that it is not installed in your box.
> 

The latest apt (in Debian) installs recommended packages by default. So, 
unless the user configures apt not to install the recommended packages 
netpbm should be installed by default.

hth
raju
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