Re: Fedora not updating abiword -- followup

From: Beartooth <beartooth_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 21:19:08 CEST

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

> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 09:48 -0400, Beartooth wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> It is the library that make inserting of Gnumeric charts possible. I
> doubt you would notice anything about increased overhead, especially
> since the library would only be loaded when it is first used.

         My face is red. Turned out I already had goffice-0.2.1-1.fc5 and
didn't even know it; so I installed goffice-devel. Sure enough, that
eliminated the error. Many thanks!

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast
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and strong, and light. And gentle to the hand.
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