Re: Giving up on Abiword

>
> Hi Marc!
>
> I guess I'm only an intermediate Linux user, but I really liked
> using Slackware. I also really like AbiWord and Gnumeric. I'm back to
> FC6 for a variety of reasons, including Abiword and Gnumeric. Next week
> my old pc is coming home from the repair shop ( if the guy can fix it)
> and I really want to be clear about this..
>
> In Slackware 12, I only need to manually add two dependencies to have
> Abiword work correctly?

Only libgnomeprint and libgnomecanvas should be needed, yes. Those 2
libs shouldn't have a hard requirement on any other gnome lib.

> I've read all this stuff online about "no more Gnome libraries,"etc.
> and it sort of shoo'ed me away from SW12. This is good news.

With some luck we can make AbiWord 2.8 depend on GtkPrint, which should
drop the last requirement on a library with "gnome" in its name :)

Marc

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Received on Thu Sep 20 19:04:54 2007