On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jim Hettmer wrote:
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> I would like to try the package. O, to finally be able to read peoples'
> "so-called-universal" attachments without grinding them through antiword! I
> feel like Richard The Third ("Dogs bark at me as I lame by them").
>
> So starting from my treasured (!) RH7.2 platform I have spent the last 3
> days installing more recent versions of everything that depended on everything
> that depended... {I was trying to try the 2.2.4 Package). The newest X must
> have installed because it threw away my gnome session and I spent 3 hours MAYBE
> getting it back (I will log out if pressed at knifepoint.) Pango, Gtk+, the
> list is unending. My final move was to install the very latest gcc, but
> Package still says I have the wrong version of c++. Obviously I know only
> enough to get myself in serious trouble and have misdone or neglected or
> totally misunderstood something critical. Can anyone tell me what it's looking
> for and what dumb thing I did? (Or didn't.) (Or am trying to do?)
> Thanks.
> Jim
Umm sorry Jim. I really suggest you upgrade to a more recent distribution.
The development of AbiWord on Linux really does build on the whole
gtk2/fontconfig/XFT2/gnome2 stack. There are lots of additional features
in these libraries that we need.
Martin
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Received on Fri Mar 4 07:48:51 2005
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