Re: Ubuntu 12.04
Mark Richardson <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:15:35 -0700
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Just a long-shot here, but if you want to run Abiword while you're sorting out your Debian problems you can run a Windows version on Ubuntu through Wine. (Google "abiword wine"). Leon Stedman wrote: > > Thanks Richard > > BUT the abisource page tells me to go to a Ubuntu page, which does not > lead me to a binary down-loadable package. After three days of > attempting to find such I e-mailed the list for help. > > I downloaded the source code for 2.8.6 I had hoped to avoid doing so > because I will need to download many "dev" packets. > > It does not help that I am not familiar with the Debian system having > used Redhead. > > The last time I tried to compile Abiword I could not find a required > packet! > > I have downloaded source code for 2.8.6. and satisfied cofigure's > requirements. > "make" crashes with: > g++: error: unrecognised option --no-undefined > > Leon Stedman. > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Richard L. Dery wrote: > >> >> How on earth do I remove this version and replace it with a 2.8 version >> which will work. Or even how do I make the 2.9.2 version work. >> >> ----- >> >> Version 2.9.4 has been released. The developers are recommending this >> newer version, as it contains a lot of bug fixes. It can be downloaded >> and installed using a source tarball from www.abisource.com. >> >> You may also be able to download version 2.8.6 and try to install that. >> I'm saying try because 2.8.6 may require dependencies that your system >> may have updated, and so are no longer compatible with 2.8.6. >> >> You'll probably need to configure your applications menu to point at the >> new version. >> >> Strangeness: When I upgraded to 2.9.4, clicking on Help -> About AbiWord >> reported it as version 2.9.2. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >> [email protected] with the word >> unsubscribe in the message body. >> > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. > > ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.