Subject: Re: installation on slackware
From: James Montgomerie (jamie@montgomerie.net)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 08:08:04 CST
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Albert Wagner wrote:
>
> > Hi, Dom. Obviously, you didn't read the text of mine that you quoted
> > below. I DID download the tarballs. It takes considerably longer than
> > 15min on a 56K modem with a slow connection; Longer in fact than the
> > slackware package and the generic binary. The tarballs, about 6 of them,
> > were all incorrectly built. Or I would have compiled. Rather, as it
> > stands right now, I can't get there from here. I have in the past
> > downloaded and installed abiword, then erased it because basic features
> > were still missing. Abiword probably holds the record for the open
> > source project longest in development.
The pre-compiled SlackWare package /does/ work, if you're prepared do be a bit,
erm, 'dangerous':
After installing the package, as root:
ln /usr/lib/ltdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
This is an /extremely dodgy/ thing to do, and should /never be attempted/. But it
works.
To get spell-checking to work (not so dodgy):
rm /usr/share/abisuite/dictionary/american.hash
ln /usr/lib/ispell/american.hash usr/share/abisuite/dictionary/american.hash
Jamie (sometime SlackWare user).
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