Re: abiword installation problem on Linux

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Willem van Heiningen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:29:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: Willem van Heiningen <wpjvanhe@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: abiword installation problem on Linux
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 1).
>
> When I try to install abiword (abiword-2.4.5.x86.package)

Note: that is an Autopackage

> on my laptop I get
> the following error message:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error: Could not find 'Enchant is a cross-platform abstract layer to
> spellchecking'. Try using the native package manager for Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux () to install a package with similar name to 'enchant'.
>
> Error: Unable to prepare package AbiWord Word Processor.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I downloaded and installed enchant (enchant-1.3.0.tar) but the above error
> message persists. I don't know if I installed it using the "native package
> manager" from the error message but I can now run enchant from the command line
> so it looks like it installed correctly, i.e.

If you downloaded a tarball and compiled it yourself (as implied by your
mention of enchant .tar) then one could say you didn't use a package at
all. In the case of RedHat the package type would be the RedHat Package
Management, aka RPM so if you can find a recent RPM for enchant that is
more likely to get properly registered and picked up correctly. It may
also be possible to correctly install enchant the other way but using the
RPMs provided is your best bet.

> Any ideas?

Do let us know if you manage to sort this out yourself in the meantime but
someone else might be able to provide better advice but you will have to
wait and hope.

-- 
Alan
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