From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 09:45:49 EDT
Marco,
We already have a build document. I'm not making a
"howto install on RedHat 9" document as well. Install
the Glib2 RPMs, or build your own RPMs.
Dom
--- "M. Fioretti" <m.fioretti@inwind.it> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 11:46:27 at 11:46:27AM -0700,
> Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com) wrote:
> >
>
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518&release_id=184235
> >
> > Specifically:
> >
> >
>
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/enchant-1.0.0-2.i386.rpm?download
> >
>
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/enchant-1.0.0-2.src.rpm?download
> >
>
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/enchant-devel-1.0.0-2.i386.rpm?download
> >
>
> Dom,
> thanks for the information. sourceforge.net is not
> reachable to me
> now, so my apologies if this is explained there.
> However, the info
> above is not complete for Red Hat 9: I could not
> install those RPMs
> because glib (and maybe something else) is missing
> on the system.
>
> I am not blaming anybody for this, but it seems
> evident to me that a
> mini-howto about "Installing AbiWord 2.x on a
> BAREBONE Red Hat 9
> /Fedora box" is needed. I'm talking of ONE single
> page, or paragraph saying
>
> "the abiword RPM is this, and to install *this*
> version on base Red
> Hat 9 without Gnome, just X, you need:
>
> this version of enchant, RPM is here
> this version of glib, RPM is here
> etc...
>
> This is all the more needed because RPMs for those
> packages and RH9 do
> exist, but are scattered here and there, and not
> listed in the usual
> places (www.rpmfind.net to begin with). Only
> googling and guessing is
> left.
>
> I am willing to put together this mini-howto for the
> Abiword web
> pages, but I need all developers help to figure out
> which version of
> what is needed, and to make an RPM of it if it
> doesn't exist yet.
>
> The last part means "I'll build RPMs with the spec
> file you
> provide/help me to write, and report here any fault
> until it works"
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Marco Fioretti
>
>
> --
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>
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>
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