Subject: Re: Installing AbiWord 0.9.4
From: Larry Reznick (lreznick@interactdevices.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 09:16:38 CST
Happy House wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I have Redhat 7.1 and i recently tried to install AbiWord 0.9.4 for
> gnome, when I tried to install the RPM for Redhat 7.1 I got a dependency
> problem and... something like "libsgal" and "gal" i tried to install
> gal from the Redhat 7.1 disk, but I was told it was already installed
> (gal i mean). Maybe my gal isn't up to date? Where can I find thig
> "gal" ? And what does it do? please help anyone? Thank you!
>
> sincere thanks and gratitude,
>
> skkaw
Hi. I just went through a bunch of grief regarding Redhat 7.1 and trying to
install AbiWord 0.9.4. You can try to upgrade all the dependency files (I
got them from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/index.html), but when I did that,
the net effect was to break GNOME. If you have enough time, you might be
able to track exactly what was missing, but I don't have that kind of time.
Here are the Redhat 7.2(!) files that I installed to try to make the
abiword-gnome 0.9.4 version work:
gal-0.8-6.i386.rpm
gal-devel-0.8-6.i386.rpm
gnome-print-0.29-6.i386.rpm
gnome-print-devel-0.29-6.i386.rpm
libgal7-0.8-6.i386.rpm
libgnomeprint15-0.29-6.i386.rpm
Those ended up creating all sorts of problems with the sawfish window
manager under gnome and fouled the desktop guide. I ended up restoring the
original versions from Redhat's 7.1 list:
gal-0.4.1-3.i386.rpm
gal-devel-0.4.1-3.i386.rpm
gnome-print-0.25-9.i386.rpm
gnome-print-devel-0.25-9.i386.rpm
libgal3-0.4.1-3.i386.rpm
libgnomeprint11-0.25-9.i386.rpm
I uninstalled abiword-gnome-RH7.1-0.9.4.1-1.i386.rpm, which is the version
that demands all those other dependencies. Instead, I installed the GTK
version:
abiword-gtk-RH7.1-0.9.4.1.rpm
I understand that there are some things the GTK version won't allow compared
with the GNOME version because it doesn't have the gnome support, but at
least it works with Redhat 7.1 (up2date). Don't forget to do the chkfontpath
command mentioned in earlier messages.
Someone who has far more time than I might be able to get the right
combination of packages installed so that everything works nicely with the
latest & greatest version of all the code, but don't want the maintenance
work on my shoulders right now. I prefer that on Redhat's shoulders.
Good luck.
--Larry
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