Guest jwl Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 Greetings, I just installed mdk9.0, and noticed that there seem to be no packages for Abiword. What's the story with that? Why would Abiword not be included? Does anyone know where I can get an rpm of the latest Abiword for mdk9? Thanks, jwl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 http://www.abisource.com/download/ If I remember correctly abiword wasn't in 8.2 either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jwl Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 thanks for the reply I tried downloading the RH7.3 rpm to see if it would work, and got this: [root]# rpm -Uvh abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: abiword-fonts is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1 expat >= 1.95.1 is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1 libcrypto.so.2 is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1 libpng.so.2 is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1 libssl.so.2 is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1 I could download the source and compile, but I'd rather use a mdk rpm package. Why would Mandrake not include Abiword, one of the preeminent Free Software apps? ::scratching my head:: thanks, jwl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 From what I've heard, it's because AbiWord does not support i18n (multi-language & double byte character) standard properly. But I've seen others managed to get Chinese characters working on AbiWord, so I cannot say for sure the reason behind. Perhaps when Gnome Office is out sometime next year Mandrake may again change her mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 You can download the mandrake rpms for abiword in the contrib section in cooker ftp sites. Here is an example ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-dev.../Mandrake/RPMS2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 Why not use urpmi instead of rpm? It should make the dependencie hell easier to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tomasz Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 ...it si a reliable server from germany, all important files are there and they are stable. no cooker, but simply contribs... ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandr...0/contrib/RPMS/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jwl Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 thanks for that URL. Forgive my newbieness, but how do I add that ftp link so that urpmi can see it? Specifically, what should I add in the "relative path to synthesis/hdlist"? I don't quite understand that yet. I'm an ex-Debian user, so I understand the theory going on here from apt, but I don't know what hdlist does. Thanks jwl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tomasz Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 I don't know either. But you can download the rpms and put them into a separate directory. then, simply add this directory into rpmdrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.robinso...cs/urpmi-howto/ Read that, especially the part about urpmi.addmedia it should help a lot.. Anyway, hdlist is basically a list of all the packages in the site and their description (what it does, what is new in the version, etc). Synthesis.hdlist is smaller file which just list the packages name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 thanks for that URL. Forgive my newbieness, but how do I add that ftp link so that urpmi can see it? Specifically, what should I add in the "relative path to synthesis/hdlist"? l Check out http://www.speculation.org/garrick/urpmifaq.txt or http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.robinso...cs/urpmi-howto/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MArk Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 Abiword 2 will be out very soon and i'm pretty sure that it will make it back into mandrake. It now uses gtk2 and xft2 (ie. it looks beautiful with great fonts) and has tables support. I'm running CVS atm - great stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonChild Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 I tried urpmi abiword Bit it says everything already installed. Which is totally unacceptable. I can't find it anywhere. It got on my nerves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 MArk :D :!: :P Missed ya :!: You were the topic of discussion the other day http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...highlight=sisob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MArk Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 funky i'm passing through - will probably pop by every now and then and see if i can be of use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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