From: Daniel Mahler (mahler@cyc.com)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 16:02:19 EDT
I ran into the same problem on (out of date) Linux.
It actually seems that you may need
admin priviliges to install abiword
if all your software is not up to date,
since there are inderect dependencies on
xft and xml libraries which need to register
themselves in system directories.
D
Pete Young writes:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to build Abiword 2.0 on a Solaris 8 system with no Gnome.
>
> Besides Glib/GTK+, which is mentioned in the documentation, the list
> of dependencies is seemingly endless. So far:
>
> gmodule-2.0
> gnome-vfs-2.0
> libbonobo-2.0
> gconf-2.0
> libgnome-2.0
> libgnomeui
> fontconfig
> gucharmap
> libglade
> libxml2
>
> and there are probably others looming around the corner.
>
> This is proving a little soul-destroying. Is there another way, or do
> I have to just sit here recursively discovering dependencies, finding
> source, configure/make/make makinstall, lather rinse repeat?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
>
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