Package Details: fbv 1.0c-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/fbv.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: fbv
Description: FrameBuffer image viewer
Upstream URL: https://github.com/jstkdng/fbv
Licenses: GPL-2.0-only
Submitter: arojas
Maintainer: JstKddng
Last Packager: JstKddng
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2023-04-01 08:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-14 02:38 (UTC)

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Required by (3)

Sources (1)

Latest Comments

dreieck commented on 2026-09-05 09:25 (UTC)

depends needs to be changed (libjpeg):

Can you please change

  • dependendy libjpeg to libjpeg-turbo (any maybe existing make dependency libjpeg needs also to be changed to libjpeg-turbo),
    or maybe more elaboreate,
  • dependencies libjpeg to libjpeg.so AND add make dependency libjpeg-turbo?

Reason: Arch Linux does not have libjpeg anymore, and libjpeg-turbo stopped to declare libjpeg in it's provides array.

Regards and thanks for maintaining!

m040601 commented on 2026-09-02 23:14 (UTC) (edited on 2026-09-02 23:46 (UTC) by m040601)

I just realized that this "fbv" used to be an official Archlinux package. The "original" fbv repo, http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/fbv-1.0b.tar.gz seems to be long abandoned. So it was dumped to the AUR.

The current maintainer of this "fbv" PKGBUILD is active on the AUR, 

  Last Login:    2026-05-18 (UTC)
  Maintainer:    JstKddng
  maintaining "ungoogled-chromium" etc

and he seems to be the same owner of the repo

https://github.com/jstkdng/fbv

Which is a maintenance repo for fbv, https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=fbv&id=0c4dbeddfc173816b7a06966848d4c90e40d1aad

I would really like to keep using this extremly usefull tool.

To get this PKGBUILD working (see my previous comments) I changed, 

depends=("libpng" "libjpeg")

to

depends=("libpng" "libjpeg-turbo")

It built and installed successfuly withou any errors. It seems to be working exactly like before. But I am not 100% sure if this dependency change is OK.

Can you please confirm all this ?

I cant contact you on github,

$ gh isl https://github.com/jstkdng/fbv
the 'jstkdng/fbv' repository has disabled issues

Thanks in advance.

m040601 commented on 2026-07-02 01:53 (UTC) (edited on 2026-07-03 12:38 (UTC) by m040601)

EDIT: related Arch issues:

ORIGINAL COMMENT:

This PKGBUILD might need a minor edit. To the PKGBUILD maintainer , please clarify.

It seems that the on the official Arch packages,

.... The virtual libjpeg was removed on purpose , see Remove the provision for libjpeg

A recent Arch official package "libjpeg-turbo" update gives me this message

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing libjpeg-turbo (3.2.0-2) breaks dependency 'libjpeg' required by fbv

$ pacman -Si libjpeg-turbo

Repository      : extra
Name            : libjpeg-turbo
Version         : 3.2.0-2
Description     : JPEG image codec with accelerated baseline compression and decompression
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://libjpeg-turbo.org/
Licenses        : BSD-3-Clause  IJG
Groups          : None
Provides        : libjpeg.so=8-64  libturbojpeg.so=0-64
Depends On      : glibc
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 601.28 KiB
Installed Size  : 2713.75 KiB
Packager        : David Runge <dvzrv@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Wed 01 Jul 2026 10:59:55 AM WEST
Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum  Signature

This Arch official "libjpeg-turbo" is an important package required by many other tool that need jpeg support. I am gonna keep it of course. So I uninstalled fbv for now,

$ pacman -Ql libjpeg-turbo

libjpeg-turbo /usr/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/bin/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/bin/cjpeg
libjpeg-turbo /usr/bin/djpeg
libjpeg-turbo /usr/bin/jpegtran
libjpeg-turbo /usr/bin/rdjpgcom
libjpeg-turbo /usr/bin/tjbench
libjpeg-turbo /usr/bin/wrjpgcom
libjpeg-turbo /usr/include/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/include/jconfig.h
libjpeg-turbo /usr/include/jerror.h
libjpeg-turbo /usr/include/jmorecfg.h
libjpeg-turbo /usr/include/jpegint.h
libjpeg-turbo /usr/include/jpeglib.h
libjpeg-turbo /usr/include/turbojpeg.h
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/cmake/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/cmake/libjpeg-turbo/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/cmake/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turboConfig.cmake
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/cmake/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turboConfigVersion.cmake
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/cmake/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turboTargets-none.cmake
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/cmake/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turboTargets.cmake
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/libjpeg.so
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8.3.2
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/libturbojpeg.so
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/libturbojpeg.so.0
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/libturbojpeg.so.0.5.0
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libjpeg.pc
libjpeg-turbo /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libturbojpeg.pc
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/LICENSE.md
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/README.ijg
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/README.md
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/example.c
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg.txt
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/structure.txt
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/tjcomp.c
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/tjdecomp.c
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/tjtran.c
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/usage.txt
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo/wizard.txt
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/licenses/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/licenses/libjpeg-turbo/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/licenses/libjpeg-turbo/LICENSE.md
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/licenses/libjpeg-turbo/README.ijg
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/man/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/man/man1/
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/man/man1/cjpeg.1.gz
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/man/man1/djpeg.1.gz
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/man/man1/jpegtran.1.gz
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/man/man1/rdjpgcom.1.gz
libjpeg-turbo /usr/share/man/man1/wrjpgcom.1.gz

I still like fbv and find it very usefull. I am now confused why "fbv" would not be "satisfied" with that official arch "libjpeg-turbo" like everyone else. Why does it have to pull "libjpeg-turbo-git" from the AUR ?

Dependencies (2)

  • libjpeg (mozjpeg-git^AUR, mozjpeg^AUR, libjpeg-turbo-git^AUR)
  • libpng (libpng-git^AUR, libpng-apng^AUR)

I'm trying to reduce my AUR dependencies, and dont want to pull more AUR dependencies.

I tried asking the fbv developer this question. "Can fbv work with libjpeg-turbo" ? But the repos has issues disabled.

Creating issue in jstkdng/fbv
the 'jstkdng/fbv' repository has disabled issues

m040601 commented on 2025-02-17 02:44 (UTC) (edited on 2025-02-17 03:00 (UTC) by m040601)

Still missing in the man page as of , 2025-02-17

in section OPTIONS,

  -r, --ignore-aspect Ignore the image aspect while resizing

In section KEYS

Space   quit

fbv --help, still shows

  -x <percent>, --smartfit <percent>  Show image by covering the whole screen if less than <percent>% is out of screen

This is not on the man page. But must be something deprecated, because it dumps core if used.

Some improvements for the man page.

DESCRIPTION
       This is a simple program to view pictures on a framebuffer console.

Perhaps make the user aware that this only supports jpeg and png. Not modern ones like webp, avif etc. Neither tiff, pbm.

DESCRIPTION
       This is a simple program to view jpeg and png pictures on a framebuffer console.

JstKddng commented on 2024-12-03 13:06 (UTC)

switch done, had to create my own fork because godspeed's configure is broken

emk2203 commented on 2024-12-03 05:42 (UTC)

Can confirm, upstream is still dead. (For three months now).

Time to switch to the alternative source. The fork on github I found is https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv

sgerwk commented on 2024-09-04 03:43 (UTC)

Upstream source seems to be dead.

Why not using the github version?

m040601 commented on 2023-09-28 02:10 (UTC) (edited on 2023-09-28 02:14 (UTC) by m040601)

Has undocumented keys not in the man page and not --help

Space              - next image
>(greater than)    - next image
<(lesser than)     - previous image
up/down/left/right  - panning

m040601 commented on 2023-09-28 01:51 (UTC) (edited on 2023-09-28 01:52 (UTC) by m040601)

Some usefull information.

This PKGBUILD pulls from http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ which unfortunately was last updated in 2011. The Changelog itself states the latest changes as of 2003. So the original tool hasnt been touch since then. It still works perfectly. Very very usefull in the console and with fbterm.

But there is fork on github, https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv

And this fork one has many commits and recent activity up to 2021. Also many contributions from other Arch users like https://github.com/sgerwk?tab=repositories , https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sgerwk

m040601 commented on 2023-04-01 18:55 (UTC)

Just noticed this package was "downgraded" from an official Arch package to the AUR in the big "spring cleanup" by Antonio Rojas.

Thanks for adopting it. Just to let you know that there are still many of us Arch users who do use and test a lot of these framebuffer tools (image viewers, screen shot , screen cast etc).

You might also be interested in adopting https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fbdump. It "screenshots" the console to .ppm files. Was working perfectly fine on my system.

There is also "fbgrab", still an official Arch package, which screeshots to .png files.