Ubuntu JPG support

Hey guys, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop and everything was working great until last night when, as if by magic, my computer forgot what JPGs are. Just has no fucking clue what they are or how to display them. Whenever I try to open a JPG, my computer just takes a big old dump on itself and then goes into the corner and cries.

This is a problem, because I need to be able to look at my porn. I kid you not, this shit was working yesterday and now today it doesn't.

What's funny is it still recognizes PNGs and GIFs and other image formats, just not JPG.

I'll try reinstalling libjpeg, maybe that will help.

my computer just takes a big old dump on itself and then goes into the corner and cries.
Really helpful description you got there, fatty.

sudo aptitude install libjpg libjpeg

>>2
The error message given is "Unrecognized file format" which is complete bullshit because it was recognized yesterday.

>>3
Tried those; apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic could not find them. Synaptic did find libjpeg62, but it was already installed.

Did you try 'Properties > Open with'?

>>6
Yeah, it's opening with eog. Like I said, all the other images open up just fine, only JPGs are broken.

Then I'd try reinstalling eog and libjpeg62.

HAHA I quoted myself.

And >>7, I meant it's trying to open in eog which gives me the unrecognized file format error.

>>8
Did you reinstall them?

>>9
Yeah, no dice.

I had a look through my .bash_history file and saw something that I think is the likely candidate. I installed something called divx4linux a while back and I think that might be causing the problem somehow.

I'll try to uninstall that and see how that goes.

>>10
Nothing.

This is mysterious.

I logged in as someone else to see if maybe it was a settings issue, but it doesn't work for anyone, which makes me think some library is either corrupted or not there. Unfortunately, I don't know which libraries to look for so I have no idea which libraries should be installed and which ones might be conflicting.

I don't know what to do, short of reinstalling every single package on my system.

Can you open them in some other image viewer?
Why are you using eog anyway? It's easily the worst image viewer available.

% pacman -S feh

Last time I checked, Ubuntu didn't have support for MP3 type files because of potential licensing issues or something; at least not out of the box. You needed to include additional installation sources and install the codecs. JPEG also has some patents on it (as opposed to GIF and PNG for example). Just guessing here.

>>14
Last time I checked
You should probably check again. Ubuntu is far less principled than Debian itself when it comes to non-free technology.

Also, there are no patents that apply to JPEG at this point. Forgent claimed it held one in 2002, and managed to convince a fair number of suckers to pay license fees, but the USPTO found it was invalid due to prior art. And even if it had been a valid patent, it would have expired in 2006.

In terms of genuine patent issues, you may be confusing it with GIF, which uses technology which Unisys held a legitimate patent on until it expired in 2003 (in the US) and 2004 (in the rest of the world).

Either way, OP's issues are very unlikely to be a result of JPEG being non-free.

>>15
Thanks for clearing that up. Yes, I did confuse that. Apologies.

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