Re: AbiWord rpm?
"Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]>
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On 6/15/06, Clark, Patricia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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? > 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? > Openoffice in RHEL-4 will do this. > Patti Clark > Unix System Administrator - RHCT > Office of Scientific and Technical Information > > -- > nahant-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nahant-list > > > -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list