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.

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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.