Re: Fedora not updating abiword -- followup

On Tue, 16 May 2006, J.M. Maurer wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 12:40 -0400, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there any easy way to tell, perhaps with abiword open, what I have
>>>> is really .fc4 or .fc5 on that machine?
>>>
>>> The FC5 version includes the GNOME Office charting plugin (should add a
>>> menu option Insert -> Object -> GNOME Office Chart. The FC4 version does
>>> not have this plugin.
>>
>> Sure enough : on the machine that claims .fc4, I don't even see
>> Object under Insert.
>
> Hmm, that might be another issue i just found out. Do you have the
> option if you do an "yum install goffice-devel" first?

         What is goffice? If "document-centric" means a bunch of bells and
whistles like OpenOffice, it doesn't appeal -- I use AbiWord precisely
because it doesn't have a lot of the things OpenOffice does, and my
understanding has always been that eschewing them is what makes it so much
faster.

         As things stand now, with abiword-2.4.4-4.fc5, I do see Object
under Insert. The one thing in it is Gnome Office Chart; when I click on
it, it opens with a message saying "[custom widget creation failed]" --
but it was abiword-2.4.4-2.fc5 that wouldn't update; so it has iin the
interim; and I now get no errors from yum update abiword, but only a
message saying there's nothing newer.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast
A wanderstaff like an Elvish rope should be long,
and strong, and light. And gentle to the hand.
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