From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 17:23:47 EDT
You might have run into the infamous "incompatible libpng bug" on
Mandrake. Abi runs fine on Mandrake. Those RPMs you downloaded were
built on RedHat against a different libpng. That could explain
*everything*.
Dom
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:18, Rob Woodard wrote:
> Additionally, I was just now able to insert these files into a document
> with OpenOffice. I'm sure the problem is one with how I installed
> abiword; but there is no way for me to know what it might be. I
> installed the abiword rpm's I downloaded from the web site; I remember I
> had to install with -nodeps because it kept complaining that I didn't
> have all the dependencies, even after I went through the dependencies
> one by one and verified they were there.
>
> Maybe abiword just isn't compatible with Mandrake?
>
> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 13:08, Rob Woodard wrote:
> > I have installed abiword 1.0.3 on Mandrake 8.2. It seems to be working,
> > however I can't seem to import images. Whenever I try to insert an
> > image into a document, I get an error message:
> >
> > Error importing file /home/rwoodard/floater.bmp.
> >
> > That's all it says. I can't find any information on *why* it can't
> > import the file. The image is a screen shot I captured using the GIMP;
> > I tried installing the GIMP plugin but that didn't help. The image
> > opens fine using the GIMP so don't think there's anything wrong with the
> > file.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
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