Re: core 2 rpms and imports

On za, 2004-07-24 at 12:40 -0500, Jim Hettmer wrote:
> Finally got a Fedora core 2 platform and have been waiting forever to
> download a latest abiword. A couple of problems and probably me being stupid
> in all cases, but help with dumb questions would be greatly appreciated.
> 1. The Fedora core 2 rpms seem not to contain any help files? I find help
> with Mozilla online, but nothing happens when I merely click the help button.
> Or have I failed to set up some URL?

That's our error, and we should fix that. It's been like that for ages.

> 2. I duly installed enchant, it's right there in /usr/lib, but the rpm
> install can't find it and I had to rpm -i --nodeps. What should I have done?

erm, Rui, any ideas?

> 3. (Stupidest of all). I have (I THINK) all the plug-ins via the plug-in
> rpm. I thought I could maybe load an html (I have tons of them) and see it all
> formatted nice and convert to abw once and for all. Everything I try, it just
> shows me the literal html. What's the obvious dumb mistake I am making?

Maybe it works better when you set the file type to HTML in the Open
File dialog? Mind that a LOT of the HTML out there is crappy, and won't
import properly

Marc

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Received on Sat Jul 24 19:36:11 2004