Re: abiword installation problem on Linux

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Tom Pittman wrote:

>
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:57:38 -0500 (EST)
> Willem van Heiningen <wpjvanhe@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your reply, Alan. Unfortunately, I'm still stuck.
>>
>> I tried installing enchant using the package manager and I got
>> the following error:
>>
>> $ rpm -i enchant-1.3.0-1.fc6.i386.rpm
>> warning: enchant-1.3.0-1.fc6.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
>> NOKEY, key ID 1ac70ce6
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by
>> enchant-1.3.0-1.fc6.i386 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by
>> enchant-1.3.0-1.fc6.i386
>>
>> so I downloaded and tried to install the libc rpm and got the
>> following error:
>>
>> $ rpm -i glibc-2.3.6-4.i386.rpm
>> warning: glibc-2.3.6-4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
>> ID 30c9ecf8 error: Failed dependencies:
>> glibc-common = 2.3.6-4 is needed by glibc-2.3.6-4.i386
>> glibc > 2.3.4 conflicts with
>> glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9.i386
>>
>> I could spend the rest of the day (optimistic estimate) trying
>> to resolve these problems but the thing is that enchant
>> installed fine using the tarball. Is there no way to get
>> abiword to be happy with the tarball version of enchant?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Will
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Alan Horkan wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Willem van Heiningen wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
> While RPMs usually install to /usr, tarball installs usually
> default to /usr/local. a link may be all you need.
>
> Try " $ whereis enchant "

enchant was installed in /usr/local as you suspected. I added links from
/usr/bin and /usr/lib to all the enchant stuff in /usr/local/bin and
/usr/local/lib but, unfortunately, this did not seem to make any
difference to the abiword installer.

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Received on Fri Feb 9 19:53:41 2007