From: Ingo Lantschner (ingo.lists_at_vum.at)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 06:02:37 EST
Hi all,
I subscribed a few weeks ago, because there are some plans on localizing
Abiword to Lingala, a language originating from the Congo-river and
nowadays spreading all over Africa because of some famous congolesian
muscians. Abiword was our choice because of its small ressource neeeds,
since we have lots of schools in Kinshasa to equipe, and the computers are
some Pentium I with sometimes only 16 MB of RAM / 800 MB HD. We found that
"The Rule Project" (http://www.rule-project.org/) did some very valuable
work and provided a installscript for RedHat9 which installed a
minimal Linux on such machines. Also Abiword 1.4 installed fine, and since
3 month, some thousands of Congolesiean pupils learn textprocessing with
AbiWord 1.4.
In the course of time we realizzed that this version is a bit buggy and
when I saw, that there is already a version 2 I canceled any efforts to
find these bugs because we should use up to date software.
Installing the Abiword 2 rpm on top of Redhat9/TinyX/iceWM unfortunatly
forced me to to install 40 MB of mostly Gnome-rpms. In the end only
nautilus was missing, which I did NOT install, because it opened up an
other dependency-hell.
My question: Is there any way to install a lean Abiword 2, so that we can
really make use of its small memory- and harddisk footprint?
Thanks for any comments and hints, Ingo.
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