Re: AbiWord rpm?

"Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general,gmane.linux.redhat.release.nahant.general,gmane.linux.redhat.general
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On 6/15/06, Clark, Patricia <[email protected]> wrote:
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> While I have found ancient Red Hat and more recent Fedora Core RPMs for
> AbiWord, I have been unable to find a source for either RHEL3 or RHEL4.  I
> am trying to avoid compiling from source if possible - there are many
> dependencies.  I've looked at freshmeat, dag.wieers, and rpmseek after
> googling.  Is there another source for compiled Red Hat packages?  Also, it
> appears that Red Hat had a package a few eons ago called powertools that
> contained abiword.  Was there a reason for dropping it?
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Abiword was removed from RHEL-3/RHEL-4 out of support concerns... not
as in Abiword is full of bugs.. but out of the 8 editors that we ship,
which ones can we focus on. The OpenOffice was coming on strong and it
was decided to focus on it.

You might try the Fedora Core 3 version 2.0.12. I don't think you
would be able to get the 2.2 or 2.4 versions working on RHEL-3/4 due
to so many dependency changes.

> A followup question, is there a better package for converting html and/or MS
> Word files into pdf files?
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Openoffice in RHEL-4 will do this.

> Patti Clark
> Unix System Administrator - RHCT
> Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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